What then did that moth have to do with love? I study more particularly the role winged creatures play in conceptualizing romantic love in modernist prose. My work in the past few years has been devoted to nonhuman figuration. Woolf’s quote struck me not just for the odd “love story” label it attaches to the novel but for the connection it makes between a love story and a moth. Ostensibly, the novel is anything but a love story: it has no plot nor even fully distinguishable characters, let alone any courtship narratives or marriage plots. This is an extremely counterintuitive statement. In her diary, Virginia Woolf describes The Waves in these terms: “It is to be a love story: she is finally to let the last great moth in” (Diary 139). Virginia Woolf’s The Waves: A Love Story?īy Tali Banin, author of “The Winged Creatures of The Waves and Virginia Woolf’s Figurations of ‘The One,’” now available on Project MUSE .
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