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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"A Room of One's Own"”.
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A room of one's own, revisited: An existential-hermeneutic study of female solitude
… presents an existential-hermeneutic analysis of nine women's first-person accounts of extended periods of solitude. The accounts were analyzed along the five existential dimensions of spatiality, temporality, embodiment, language, and co-existentiality, producing a rich portrait of the women's …
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The Dilemma of Woolf's Androgyny: A Close Look at Androgyny in <em>A Room of One's Own</em> and <em>Orlando</em>.
<p>This thesis explores Woolf's concept of androgyny through a comparison of her nonfiction essay <em>A Room of One's Own</em> and her fiction-fantasy novel <em>Orlando</em>. Recent and past critical writings on Woolf and androgyny have been consulted, as well as primary sources including her …
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From 'a room of one's own' to 'a room in the home': Discourses of negation in Indian feminist post-colonial fiction of Anita Desai, Mannu Bhandari and Ashapurna Devi
The theoretical writings of many European and American feminists on Third World women and feminism foreground several problems regarding their understanding of Third World women. These problems are being increasingly brought to light by Third World women like, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Gayatri …
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Wilderness Women: Embodiment in Nature
Virginia Woolf makes clear in her book A Room of One's Own that "[A] woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write…." This statement extends to all endeavors by women, including sport. The gap between men and women's sports is not bridged by monetary compensation. The domination of …
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Classifying videogames as art and why it matters now
… institution is the key to progress the notion of videogames as art and both art museums and universities alike must be behind the progression of what is considered the artistic canon in order to create new opportunities in the field of making art. I have reviewed popular arguments for and …
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Mrs. Ramsay's Art in To the Lighthouse
<p>When Virginia Woolf discusses the struggles of women writers in <em>A Room of One’s Own</em> she points out that one of the greatest hindrances to women’s ability to write fiction, besides the criticism they will face, is the fact “that they had no tradition behind them, or one so short and …
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The androgynous ideal in twentieth-century feminist literature : Woolf, Carter, Winterson and Harpman
This thesis is an investigation of the concepts of androgyny used in the work, both theory and fiction, of Virginia Woolf, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson and Jacqueline Harpman. Androgyny is an idea which is thousands of years old, and an overview of its presence in religion, mythology and …