The Waves
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The Waves is a modernist novel by Virginia Woolf that experiments with stream-of-consciousness monologues to trace the intertwined lives and inner worlds of six friends from childhood to old age.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Waves canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
modernist novel
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novel ⓘ stream-of-consciousness fiction ⓘ |
| author | Virginia Woolf ⓘ |
| centralAbsentFigure | Percival ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Vita Sackville-West ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | print ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Years ⓘ |
| form |
lyric prose
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novel in voices ⓘ |
| genre |
experimental fiction
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fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
radio adaptations
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stage adaptations ⓘ |
| hasPart | nine interludes describing the sea and the sun ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
European avant-garde
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surface form:
European modernism
James Joyce ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Bloomsbury Group ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | modernism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Bernard
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Jinny ⓘ Louis ⓘ Neville ⓘ Rhoda ⓘ Susan ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
interior monologue
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stream of consciousness ⓘ |
| notableFor |
absence of conventional plot
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fusion of poetry and prose ⓘ radical narrative experimentation ⓘ |
| numberOfMainCharacters | 6 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Virginia Woolf bibliography ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Years ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1931 ⓘ |
| publisher | Hogarth Press ⓘ |
| setting | England ⓘ |
| structure |
interspersed with third-person interludes
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series of soliloquies ⓘ |
| theme |
friendship
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identity ⓘ individual versus collective self ⓘ memory ⓘ mortality ⓘ subjective consciousness ⓘ time ⓘ |
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