Between the Acts

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Between the Acts is Virginia Woolf’s final novel, a modernist work that interweaves a village pageant with reflections on art, history, and the looming threat of World War II.

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instanceOf modernist novel
novel
author Virginia Woolf
centralEvent village historical pageant
completedBy Leonard Woolf (editorial preparation)
linked to: Leonard Woolf
containsMotif birds and nature imagery
mirrors and reflection
performance and spectatorship
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
depicts tensions within an upper-middle-class family
explores continuity and rupture in English history
relationship between art and reality
featuresCharacter Bart Oliver
Giles Oliver
Isa Oliver
Lucy Swithin
Miss La Trobe
firstPublishedIn United Kingdom
followsWork The Years
genre modernist fiction
stream-of-consciousness fiction
hasForm single-day narrative
hasPageantDirector Miss La Trobe
hasSubject English cultural memory
approach of World War II
limits of representation
language English
literaryForm experimental prose
literaryMovement modernism
mainTheme art and performance
fragmentation of experience
gender and social roles
history and national identity
imminence of war
narrativeTechnique shifting perspectives
stream of consciousness
notableFor being Virginia Woolf’s final novel
originalTitle Between the Acts
posthumous true
publicationYear 1941
publisher Hogarth Press
settingLocation English village
settingPeriod on the eve of World War II
structure framed by a village pageant
timeSpanOfStory one day
tone foreboding
lyrical
meditative
writtenBy Virginia Woolf

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Three Guineas followedBy Between the Acts
The Years followedBy Between the Acts
Virginia Woolf bibliography includesNovel Between the Acts
Between the Acts originalTitle Between the Acts