On the Horizon: a Poetics of the Sublime in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves

This monograph is a study of the Woolfian approach to the poetics of the sublime as demonstrated in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves. This novel was one of the author=s experiments in fictive creation and it called for a new poetics of the sublime. Dr Klitgard discusses Woolf’s methods, technique and narrative in this work as well as in the entire oeuvre in a direct and informative style. Dr.Klitgard has published articles on James Joyce and Virginia Woolf including critiques of Danish translations of ULYSSES and The Waves and a major study of Virginia Woolf in the Reception of British Authors in Europe series published by Continuum Press in London. She is also a co author of a major Danish-English dictionary and a translator of a book on James Joyce. Well written with extremely good insights into Woolf’s methods and ambitions…recommended. Professor A.L.Woznicki, USF, San Francisco