The relationship between form and content in Virginia Woolf's novels

Abstract

How far do the author's main concerns and beliefs dictate the narrative techniques she (he) adopts in her (his) novels? This is an intriguing question which, depending on the author, will probably require different answers. Relationally, and "a priori", one would think that there should be a strong relationship between form and content in a novel so as to make it an aesthetic, coherent whole. In what concerns Virginia Woolf's novels one notices, after a close analysis, that there is such a relationship between some of the ideas conveyed by her characters, in a significative number, and some of the narrative techniques she adopted. And this is what we shall be examining next.