Article: Woolf's 'The Waves.' (Virginia Woolf)

While scholars have for some time pointed out Woolf's concern with subject construction and the construction of the world, they have not analyzed how this interest appears on grammatical, rhetorical, syntactic, and figural levels. Accordingly, I want to explore The Waves, where, I suggest, Woolf's investigation of subject construction manifests itself primarily in linguistic terms, leading her to use constructs of language in such a way as to critique traditional assumptions about unified selves and patriarchal systems.

This concern with the relation between the grammatical and the ontological emerges most clearly when Louis claims, '"I know my cases and my genders; ...

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