James Naremore describes this structure as “a manifestation of that timeless unity Mrs. The Waves alternates an italicized section with a soliloquy section: the italicized sections describe the course of the sun from dawn to dusk in the narrative past, while the soliloquy sections stage six main characters who take turns and speak in poetic language, often in the present tense. It is “the culmination of her experimental lyric technique, a tour de force in high modernist poetic fiction,” 1 and readers have emphasized the novel’s success in creating a narrative structure that unifies prose and poetry. Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931) is often considered a representative of modernist hybrid work.
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