Yearning and Nostalgia: Fiction and Autobiographical Writings of Virginia Woolf and Doris LessingAcentral impulse in the work of a number of the writers considered in this study is nostalgia鈥攖he expression of yearning for an earlier time or place or a significant person in one's past history,...
In this paper I will discuss the position of London in this dichotomy and the difference in its portrayal in Woolf's novel (Mrs. Dalloway) and personal diaries (The Diary of Virginia Woolf). I will also track Woolf's development towards the city in her autobiographical writings (Moments of...
PG Kintzele - University of Pennsylvania. 被引量: 2发表: 2002年 'A Word to Start an Argument with': Virginia Woolf's Craftsmanship This paper explores Virginia Woolf's 1937 radio broadcast (and later essay) 'Craftsmanship' in the context of craft culture. As Woolf considers the word ju.....
In her description of a masculinist novel inA Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf complains of the shadow cast over its pages by the recurrent pronoun ‘I’. The ego of the writer looms so large that all interest and all variety are obscured. There are no perspectives except those of th...
In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf espoused Aphra Behn’s cause as the great precursor of free women writers — though the first book in English was written by Julian of Norwich, the first autobiography was written by Margery Kempe, the first playwright and female poet since antiquity...
Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History: Constellations with Walter Benjamin (review) reference to her relevant non-fictional writings, and set in relation to a figure or theme in Benjamin's work. The first of these addresses Jacob's Room in the context of her essay, "On Not Knowing Greek,"...
Waves and water, the lens of a lighthouse, a lady's looking-glass: reflecting surfaces abound in the writings of Virginia Woolf. These figurations, in turn... CE Stobie - 《Comparative Critical Studies》 被引量: 0发表: 2022年 The Other Cooper; Ron - Not Henry - Tried to Win Olympic...
Notion: Macbeth's wife is one of the most powerful female characters in literature. Unlike her husband, she lacks all humanity. Find four evidence to support the notion and explain each evidence. Describe the stream of consciousness in Virginia Woolf's Jac...
One of the unique qualities of this conversation is that it exists outside of time. Imagine a huge round table. Seated at the table are all the writers and story tellers. Ann Patchett and Stephen King are there, but so are Virginia Woolf and Leo Tolstoy. Gabriel Garcia Márquez is there...
While Virginia Woolf was writing reviews and experimenting with forms of biography, while Lytton Strachey was also reviewing and trying to become a historian or a playwright, while Roger Fry and Desmond MacCarthy were establishing themselves as critics, and E. M. Forster was becoming recognised as...