The novel and The Waves

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Our detailed examination of The Waves has uncovered many of the book's salient features – in particular its formal, abstracting drive to move away from novelistic conventions, its structural division between the sensitive and insensitive, human awareness and ‘what we are not’, and its thematic tension between stasis and process, the meaningful ‘moment’ and ‘life itself going on’. With a grasp of these essentials, we can now refine some of the points raised in the analysis and consider some interesting and unusual perspectives suggested by the work, in particular its complex and ambiguous relation to ‘the novel’.

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