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Virginia Woolfâs Microgenesis analyses Virginia Woolfâs novels through her own methodological approach to mind, to meaning, and to making whole. This volume argues that Woolfâs preoccupation with the metaphysics of âœwholeness,â a dread, indeed, of both fragmentation, and of what endures, places her writings alongside Jason Brownâs microgenesis, formulated as an unfolding, emergent, and evolutionary process of cognitive activity. However, and crucially, it is not by assembling multiple flows of sense data into more complex constructions that we might perceive the objective world, but by sculpting away the unfit to reveal the structure of the world as a surfacing reality. In so many ways, Woolfâs novels represent an enactment of microgenetic theory as they emphasise the mind/brain state as a process of continual unfolding through progressive differentiation and discrimination to a distinct configuration. That is not to say that Woolfâs writings should be understood as anticipa

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Published 6 June 2025
      ISBN-13 9781032616919
      978-1032616919
      ISBN-10 1032616911
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      Book Synopsis

      Virginia Woolfâs Microgenesis analyses Virginia Woolfâs novels through her own methodological approach to mind, to meaning, and to making whole. This volume argues that Woolfâs preoccupation with the metaphysics of âœwholeness,â a dread, indeed, of both fragmentation, and of what endures, places her writings alongside Jason Brownâs microgenesis, formulated as an unfolding, emergent, and evolutionary process of cognitive activity. However, and crucially, it is not by assembling multiple flows of sense data into more complex constructions that we might perceive the objective world, but by sculpting away the unfit to reveal the structure of the world as a surfacing reality. In so many ways, Woolfâs novels represent an enactment of microgenetic theory as they emphasise the mind/brain state as a process of continual unfolding through progressive differentiation and discrimination to a distinct configuration. That is not to say that Woolfâs writings should be understood as anticipa

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