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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Between the acts"”.
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MATERIAL MEDIATION: WOMEN, CONNECTION, AND VITAL MATERIALISM IN VIRGINIA WOOLF’S MRS DALLOWAY, TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, AND BETWEEN THE ACTS
Theories of materiality have long attempted to explain the importance of the nonhuman and to disrupt anthropocentric thinking. Recently, these theories have informed ecocritical approaches to literary analysis, including the works of Virginia Woolf, exploring the ways in which she portrays the …
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Processing trauma : dialogic memory and communal discourses in Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway, The Waves and Between the Acts
In this thesis I examine relationships between recollections of loss and the narrating of memory in works of Modernist author, Virginia Woolf. Woolf’s position within discussions of early twentieth-century responses to trauma has long been the subject of debate, and her focus on alienation, death, …
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Moments of Being: Beauty in Virginia Woolf's Works
This thesis seeks to explore how Virginia Woolf depicts beauty in the literary scenes, characters, and language in her fictional works. In The Voyage Out (1915), Woolf writes, “When one gave up seeing the beauty that clothed things, this was the skeleton beneath” (12). In this passage, Woolf is …
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Moments of Being: Beauty in Virginia Woolf's Works
This thesis seeks to explore how Virginia Woolf depicts beauty in the literary scenes, characters, and language in her fictional works. In The Voyage Out (1915), Woolf writes, “When one gave up seeing the beauty that clothed things, this was the skeleton beneath” (12). In this passage, Woolf is …
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The Theatre of Anon: Julia Margaret Cameron, Virginia Woolf, and the Performance of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King
… individually, but have not yet been studied together. In this project I consider the valedictory works of these artists at their convergence, first through their obvious geographic, familial, and aesthetic relationships, then in more subtle, deeper, and overarching dimensions. The chief texts …
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Separating Component Signals of Episodic Simulation Using a Catch Trial Design
… been found that show differences in activity between remembered and imagined events. However, studies have not disambiguated neural activity related to task orientation: i.e., preparing to remember events from the past or imagine events in the future) from activity related simulating events, …
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Gestural Ekphrasis: Toward a Phenomenology of the Moving Body in Joyce and Woolf
<p>This theoretical project seeks to introduce a new critical methodology for evaluating gesture - both represented in text and paratextual - in the works of Virginia Woolf - specifically <em>The Voyage Out</em> (1915), <em>Orlando</em> (1928), <em>The Waves</em> (1931), and <em>Between the …
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"A sea that had no shores" : the fiction of Violet Trefusis in relation to V. Sackville-West and V. Woolf
This thesis shows how the notion of androgyny works in the fiction of Violet Trefusis. It also posits her writing in connection to some novels by Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. Working within a theoretical framework provided by Julia Kristeva's psychoanalytical theory this thesis focusses …
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From the Womb to the Word: Pregnancy and Pregnancy Metaphors in 16th and 17th Century English Literature
<p>This dissertation employs a feminist theoretical lens in exploring the gendered uses of pregnancy and pregnancy metaphors in the production and dissemination of literary works in early modern England. By also examining the history of the printing press and the role it played in gendered textual …
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DEMOCRACY AS A BATTLEFIELD. CONTEMPORARY GRASSROOT MASS MOBILISATIONS IN WESTERN EUROPE, "POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY" AND THE REFRAMING OF "DEMOCRACY"
… in contemporary Western Europe? Which are the consequences of such a (re)framing? Are they desirable? In the conviction that conceptual articulation is dynamic, historical and immanent to political discourses and practices, the starting point of this research is the observation of …
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VIRGINIA WOOLF'S USE OF THE PAST: THE EARLY CRITICISM TO "TO THE LIGHTHOUSE" (HISTORY, MODERNISM, WORLD WAR I)
… historian, and for several years after she began The Voyage Out, her criticism centered on historical and biographical subjects. Later she, alone among British novelists, combined history and modernist technique, most obviously in her last five novels. Orlando and Flush are mock biographies; The …
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Performing to Reclaim: War Trauma and Female Non-Combatant Recovery in Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf, and H.D.
… Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf, and H.D. between 1916 and 1955, a historical moment consonant with World War I, the interwar era, World War II, and its aftermath. Their depictions of the material reality of war and its devastating impact on selfhood span the genres of the diary, essay, …
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Narrative Topography: Fictions of Country, City, and Suburb in the Work of Virginia Woolf, W. G. Sebald, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ian McEwan
… early twenty-first- century novelists respond to the English landscape through their presentation of narrative and their experiments with novelistic form. Opening with a discussion of the English planning movement, "Narrative Topography" reveals how shifting perceptions of the structure of English …
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Signifying nothing: intelligence and intellectual disability in modern British literature and culture, 1919 – 1969
… Literature and Culture, 1919-1969 investigates the confluences between literary and scientific approaches to intelligence in the mid-twentieth century. It stages two central arguments. First, it argues that in multiple domains, intelligence was constituted as a biopolitical resource that …