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This chapter investigates the posthumanist potential of metaphor through an analysis of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, a work that through its experimental style, structure, characterizations, plot (or lack thereof), and discursive narration disorders hierarchies of species, mimesis, narrative, and reading. The novel’s animal metaphors disrupt readerly expectations about literary conventions as well as about zoology and hierarchies between different kinds of beings. These animal figures thus subvert the sovereignty of any interpretive position: The human reader is subjected to their ruses, and pushed to continuously reconsider interpretive preconceptions. Through such maneuvers, these animals disorganize normative patterns and create possibilities for new arrangements—those of the literary text as well as of human-animal relations.

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Singing the Intervals in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves

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    2026年

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  • Maria Trejling

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This chapter investigates the posthumanist potential of metaphor through an analysis of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, a work that through its experimental style, structure, characterizations, plot (or lack thereof), and discursive narration disorders hierarchies of species, mimesis, narrative, and reading. The novel’s animal metaphors disrupt readerly expectations about literary conventions as well as about zoology and hierarchies between different kinds of beings. These animal figures thus subvert the sovereignty of any interpretive position: The human reader is subjected to their ruses, and pushed to continuously reconsider interpretive preconceptions. Through such maneuvers, these animals disorganize normative patterns and create possibilities for new arrangements—those of the literary text as well as of human-animal relations.