Talk:The Waves

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Is it a Stream of consciousness writing or not? --Taranet (talk) 22:48, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

• Not really. See Hermione Lee's chapter "The Waves" in The Novels of Virginia Woolf, Methuen & Co., 1977, reprinted in Modern Critical Views: Virginia Woolf, ed. Harold Bloom, New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986., pp. 103-104: "If we set a passage from The Waves against some excerpts from twentieth-century novels which might be, and have been, described by the term "stream of consciousness," the effect is one of dissimilarity." She goes on briefly to compare The Waves with three other stream of consciousness novels and concludes that The Waves is too different stylistically to be considered such. 217.224.134.174 (talk) 11:57, 19 May 2008 (UTC)