The form of Between the Acts is a series of shining planes of figure and ground between the acts of the play within the novel and between the events in the lives of the characters watching the play. Two major strains from Woolf s diary entries and letters written during the war, "cognitive disorientation" and "reverse evolution," are gradually woven into the text during her revisions, the former drawing on theatrical discourse of war as spectacle and the latter drawing on anthropological discourse, specifically the narrative of evolution. Virginia Woolf's final novel, written during the London Blitz, constitutes a figure and ground cognitive problem as defined by gestalt psychology, but within the context of the relation of the "real" to the situation of wartime.
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