title: The changing novel form : Virginia Woolf and John Banville
abstract: This thesis will examine Virginia Woolf's and John Banville's obsession with art and formal experimentation, and how they define the relationship between the artistic imagination and reality to discuss the problem of representation in art in terms of the changing novel form. By looking at the changing form of the novel through the study of both writers' artistic methods, I seek to establish an artistic genealogy between Woolf and Banville by reading Banville's work in the context of, and as a co