Abstract
The
article makes an attempt to sound the novelty of Virginia Woolf's and
Boris Pasternak's literary theory in the context of literary tradition. I
argue that at least in two crucial fields, in the definition of the
self and the treatment of the relationship of art and reality, it is the
paradigm established by the Romantics that seems to be the most
important point of reference. In order to prove this, I discuss both the
authors' statements about romanticism and the romantic traits in their
philosophies of art. Some of their concepts relevant to the topic (for
example, Woolf's moments of being, or Pasternak's idea of creative
subjectivity), expounded mainly in ‘A Sketch of the Past’ and in A Safe Conduct, and the Romantic influences on their work are in the focus of the paper.
Keywords
- B.L. Pasternak;
- Virginia Woolf;
- Romantic Self;
- Romantic Tradition
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