Making Thought Visible: Colour in the Writings of Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson, Samuel Beckett and T. S. Eliot
Abstract
This thesis explores colour as a philosophical means of transit between literature and the visual
arts. I explore a new way of thinking about the self and about thought, developmg the
significance of colour alongside, and internal to, modes of representation in the modernist
movement. The interaction of art and literature is crucial to much debate on modernist
aesthetics. DevelopIng the debate into the history of colour phenomena, I argue that colour
aHows a philosophical inflection to certain clich6s (such as stream-of-consciousness) that are
attached to modernist writing. In the work of Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Dorothy
Richardson and TS Eliot, I argue that the modernist preoccupation with the seeming unpasse
between thought and representation can be seen to be 'made visible' through the theme of
colour. Colour is a vehicle through which to explore the relation between thought and
perception, subject and object, and offers a new way of engagement with recent research into
theoretical comparisons between thinking, writing and visual arts.
Authors
Dackombe, Amanda MarieCollections
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