"Metaphor of Travel: Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928)." Coldnoon: Travel Poetics 2.4 (2013): 110-132. Web. Abstract:Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography (1928) is a travel narrative about Orlando's becoming-woman through boundary crossings. The time of Orlando's life spans 340 years; ...
Orlando was of course originally written as a spoof biography of Vita Sackville- West. Where the book holds most tightly to apparent biographical facts it occasionally loses its power as a story (such as Orlando's "keeping" the house at the end of the book - which was a way for Virginia...
1, side A - How my parents brought me up! They made me so… well, actually, only my mother was a believer. My father, on the other hand… he even registered himself as a non- believer in the census of 1934-35. Mama reproached him for this: "But you've been baptised. How ...
In this paper, Orlando: A Biography (1928) by Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is investigated based on the theories of Ian Boucam, Edward Said and Homi. K. Bhabha regarding superiority of Occident versus Orient. By using post-colonial and cultural studies, this paper interprets the events which...