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Virginia Woolf's Microgenesis: Mental States and Conceptual Worlds

Virginia Woolf's Microgenesis: Mental States and Conceptual Worlds

Kearns, James

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1032616911
ISBN13: 9781032616919
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 12 2025
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Virginia Woolf's Microgenesis engages with Virginia Woolf's writings in the context of her own unique methodological approach to mind, to meaning, and to making whole. This volume argues that this preoccupation with the metaphysics of wholeness, a dread, indeed, of both fragmentation and what endures as an organic unity, places Woolf's writings alongside Jason Brown's microgenesis, formulated as a formative, emergent, and dynamic process of cognitive activity. However, crucially, it is not by assembling multiple flows of sense data into more complex constructions that we might perceive the objective world but by sculpting away the unfit to reveal the structure of the world as a surfacing reality. In so many ways, Woolf's novels represent an enactment of microgenetic theory, demonstrating and alerting us to the mind/brain state as a process of continual unfolding through progressive differentiation and discrimination to a distinct configuration - albeit one which may be deemed imperfect.

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