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Article: Transforming musical sounds into words: narrative method in Virginia Woolf's The Waves.(Critical Essay)
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- May 1, 2005
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"Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself."
(Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being 72)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was fascinated by the connections between literature and music. From the start of her discussions about the sonorous art, Woolf is concerned with its imbrication in social circumstances. Her early essays--"Street Music" (1905), "The Opera" (1906), and "Impressions at Bayreuth" (1909)--deal with music as subject-matter and address its affect on ...