Abstract
“For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice…”. Woolf’s belief has been put to the test in the Bloomsbury Group and this paper intends to investigate the validity of her claim through a critical analysis of the selected works of its novelist members. In a central part of London during the first half of the twentieth century a group of intellectual and literary writers, artists, critics and an economist came together which later on was labeled as Bloomsbury group. The group’s members had an influential role in blooming novel in a different form of expression and profoundly affect its literary figures, Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster, in the composition of their fictions The Waves, A Room of One’s Own, To the Lighthouse and Forster’s A Room with a view and Howards End. The formation of Bloomsbury circle acted as a bridge from the Victorian bigotries and narrow-mindedness to the unbounded era of modernism as they searched for universal peace, individual liberalism and human accomplishments due to ideal social norms. They freely exchanged their views on variety of subjects without any limitation. The reasons behind their popularity compared to several contemporary groups were their innumerable works, the clarification of their lives through their diaries, biographies and autobiographies and their diverse kinds of activities such as criticism, painting, politics and literary writings. They were adherents of truth, goodness, enjoyment of beautiful object, intrinsic values, aesthetics, friendship and personal relationship. Intellectual intimacy and cooperation can be considered as the main attribute of its members as they collaborate with each other and employ the fundamental tenets of the group within their works. The modern style of its artists as post-impressionist highly affects the narration technique of its literary figures. These novelists tried to narrate the verbal utterances in a visual way as if the whole of the story is depicted on a canvas. Furthermore, this paper tries to discover the role of the non-literary (painters and critics) members of the group in blooming and forming of a different and novel kind of narration technique, namely ‘stream of consciousness’, through the visual impact of the painter and the discussion method of critic members of the group.
Highlights
The first acquaintance and colloquium of the members prompted the public and many writers to figure out the reasons of its formation
The formation of Bloomsbury circle acted as a bridge from the Victorian bigotries and narrow-mindedness to the unbounded era of modernism as they searched for universal peace, individual liberalism and human accomplishments due to ideal social norms
The Bloomsbury circle which included a group of literary figures, artists, critics and journalist began their meetings in 1905 at the house of Stephen’s children; Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Adrian and Thoby Stephen to discuss issues and share opinions
Summary
The first acquaintance and colloquium of the members prompted the public and many writers to figure out the reasons of its formation. S.P Rosenbaum who was famous as Bloomsbury’s expert in his book The Bloomsbury Group: A Collection of Memoires and Commentary elaborated on different aspects of the group and examined their favored conversations and topics He collected the member’s diaries, letters and autobiographies which were recited within the Memoire Club to inform the readers about their personal lives and desires. This study elaborates on the mutual interactions of the Bloomsbury’s members on each other’s works and reveals their intellectual cooperation It concentrates on the collaboration of the non-literary figures of the group with its two prominent novelists to bloom a different form of novel according to the visual impact of the painters on their narration technique. It reminded the readers to recognize the efforts of those writers whose names weren’t written on the front page of the works even though they cooperated with the main author to create literary works which became popular and permanent
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