Parsing the narrative's diffuse if distinctive aesthetic has engendered entire fields of Woolf studies concerning the writer's indebtedness to experiments in science, visual art, and media technology. Critics and scholars, returning to the short story and landing among its petals and blossoms, again and again, have long lingered in the story's ontological and epistemological folds and wrinkles. Throughout its one-hundred-year history, "Kew Gardens" has been a familiar site for modernist studies' exploration of Virginia Woolf's framing of the relationship between materiality and consciousness, subjectivity and objectivity, and the intrinsic porousness of these categories, as shaped by the experimental practices and apparatuses of her day.
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