This article seeks to explore ¡°a new form for a new novel¡± experimented by Virginia Woolf through her 1922 novel Jacob¡¯s Room. Most of Woolf¡¯s fictions adopt a double-logic narrative; by exploiting impressionistic methods in her novel, this narrative categorizes Jacob¡¯s various impressions into two different territories in the making of the character. The discrepancy in views on Jacob¡¯s impressions is a representation of the empty room. This narrative form engenders Jacob¡¯s Room, a self-reflexive novel epitomizing Woolf¡¯s idea about new forms of writing, often analogized with life itself by Woolf, in the age of literary modernism and impressionism. To present how the novel¡¯s narrative form is made different from the conventional one, which exclusively relies on verbal speeches in representing characters and plotting events, this article examines the novel¡¯s use of the ¡°empty room,¡± one spatial image embodied in the text. In doing so, this article shows that the spatial construction-the empty room-contributes to the making of the novel¡¯s narrative form. |