A Posthuman Quest for Establishing Self-Image through Nature in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves

dc.contributor.authorKümbet, Pelin
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-29T17:50:19Z
dc.date.available2024-10-29T17:50:19Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.departmentTekirdağ Namık Kemal Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractVirginia Woolf, in her highly experimental modernist novel The Waves (1931), depicts the psychological depth and texture of human experience through a series of fragmented and disjointed images, interior monologues and soliloquies, highlighting the feeling of loss, disillusionment, and brokenness. Throughout The Waves (1931), the characters strive to express themselves, and engage in a posthuman quest for a construction of a self-image through interactions with human and nonhuman life forms, and co-existence with the environment. This paper explores The Waves from a material posthumanist approach to offer a new perspective to Woolf’s understanding of the interface of nature and culture, self and the environment, the human and nonhuman agencies. This approach would be useful means to analyze the characters’ yearning for unification and their embodiment with nature, and explore the posthuman materiality of living and non-living beings that would help them redefine their shattered images and modern way of living.
dc.identifier.doi10.20304/humanitas.938219
dc.identifier.endpage170
dc.identifier.issn2147-088X
dc.identifier.issue19en_US
dc.identifier.startpage150
dc.identifier.trdizinid512693
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.20304/humanitas.938219
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/512693
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11776/12931
dc.identifier.volume10
dc.indekslendigikaynakTR-Dizin
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofHumanitas - Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Ulusal Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectThe Waves
dc.subjectecocriticism
dc.subjectVirginia Woolf
dc.subjectnew materialisms
dc.subjectposthumanism
dc.titleA Posthuman Quest for Establishing Self-Image through Nature in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
dc.typeArticle

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