'Sudden gleams of (f)light': 'Intuition as Method'?

• Autores: Charlotte De Mille
• Localización: Art history: journal of the Association of Art Historians, ISSN 0141-6790, Vol. 34, Nº. 2, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Creative Writing and Art History Edited by Catherine Grant and Patricia Rubin), págs. 370-386
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Examining the moments when Virginia Woolf lays bare her method of writing, this essay treats her fiction as an example for criticism. Woolfoften described the role of intuition as an inspiring force which enabled her to write from a different part of consciousness. Arguably, this interior vision is direct but not teleological: resolution is unknown until the text is completed. Woolf's method is compared to philosopher Henri Bergson's assertion that intuition is a process. As the initial vision rises to the surf'ace of cognition, it assumes a more definite shape which is nonetheless at the expense of full meaning. The paper has a tripartite structure: first, an explanatory analysis of Bergson's exposition of intuition as method; second, a consideration of this in regard to the aesthetics of Roger Fry and the writing of Woolf; and third, the paper takes flight to offer a rereading of Vanessa Bell's Studland Beach (1912). Reprinted by permission of the publisher.