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“Do you not discern the influence of jazz?”: W. L. Courtney on Virginia Woolf's "Jacob's Room” in 1922
W. L. Courtney concluded his review of Virginia Woolf's "Jacob's Room" in the Daily Telegraph on 10 November 1922 with a connection to music: "In its tense, syncopated movements, its staccato impulsiveness, do you not discern the influence of jazz?" From what I know of Woolf's work on that novel,