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‘Blue and Green’ is the collective title of two very short sketches Virginia Woolf included in her 1921 collection of short fiction, Monday or Tuesday. On Tuesday (oddly enough), we offered a short summary of these two sketches; now it’s time to attempt some words of analysis.
As this brief summary of ‘Blue and Green’ makes clear, summarising a Virginia Woolf story is one thing: but it hardly tells us everything we need to know about the story’s meaning. You can read our analysis of Woolf’s story here.
7 Σεπ 2019 · ‘Blue and Green’ is the collective title of two very short sketches Virginia Woolf included in her 1921 collection of short fiction, Monday or Tuesday. On Tuesday (oddly enough), we offered a short summary of these two sketches; now it’s time to attempt some words of analysis.
Blue & Green by Virginia Woolf. GREEN THE POINTED FINGERS of glass hang downwards. The light slides down the glass, and drops a pool of green. All day long the ten fingers of the lustre drop green upon the marble. The feathers of parakeetstheir harsh criessharp blades of palm treesgreen, too; green needles glittering in the sun.
Woolf’s “Blue & Green” (1921) suggests a sample of condensed mimetic and diegetic manifestations of focusing/refocusing/defocusing, which heightens textual ambiguity caused by temporal, spatial, epistemic, colour, and substance oscillations.
Virginia Woolf’s short story ‘Blue and Green’, first published in Monday or Tuesday (1921), makes an attempt at reconciling this power of symbolism with the modernist aim of representing reality through language using unconventional structures and forms.
This paper gives a survey of approaches to the analysis of Virginia Woolf’s “Blue & Green” (1921), a meditative sketch, a prose poem that belongs to experimental modernist prose, integrating...