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Dispersed Are We: The Novel of Worlds and the World of the Novel in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

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  • Jean-Jacques Lecercle Université Paris Nanterre, Paris

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/fv.42.2.11

Keywords:

ideological apparatus, Benčin, transcendental framework, literary canon, dialectic, dispersion, national history, world, distribution of the sensible, Rancière, novel, subjectivity, unification, Woolf

Abstract

Drawing on a forthcoming book by Rok Benčin on the concept of world (the multiplicity of real worlds as transcendental frameworks and the fictional structure thereof), the article proposes a reading of Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf that focuses on the dialectic of dispersion and unity. The novel presents a multiplicity of dispersed and fragmented transcendental frameworks that tend towards – an attempt that is always doomed to fail, but always begins anew – unification within the ideological apparatuses (family, religion, national history, literary canon). In this endless dialectic, literature occupies a singular place, for the fictional structure of these frameworks makes of it a transcendental-abyss, which enables passage from the novel of worlds to the world of the novel.

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References

Benčin, Rok, Rethinking the Concept of World: Towards Transcendental Multiplicity, Edinbourgh, Edinburgh University Press, à paraître.

Benčin, Rok, “Worlds as Transcendental and Political Fictions”, Filozofski vestnik, 42 (2/2021), pp. 221–243.

Briggs, Julia, Virginia Woolf : an Inner Life, Londres, Allen Lane, 2005.

Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1972.

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2021-12-31

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Lecercle, J.-J. (2021). Dispersed Are We: The Novel of Worlds and the World of the Novel in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts. Filozofski Vestnik, 42(2). https://doi.org/10.3986/fv.42.2.11

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The Concept of World in Contemporary Philosophy