My Imagination is the Body's

Abstract

In this thesis I provide a Kristevan reading of Virginia Woolf’s modernist novel, entitled The Waves, in which I analyse, on the one hand, the three female characters from the aspect of phenomenological representation, the consciousness of identity, and their relation to language. On the other hand, I focus on Woolf’s modernist writing technique, which aims to create a new kind of reality by breaking the tradition of realist narrative forms.