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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Mrs. Dalloway"”.
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Michael Cunningham's Reading of Mrs Dalloway
… The Hours is a postmodernist interpretation of Mrs Dalloway, the thesis also discusses Virginia Woolfs modernist approach in order to compare it with Cunningham's postmodernist position. I have adopted the methods of close reading and analysis in both Mrs Dalloway and The Hours. To substantiate …
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Virginia Woolf and cinema : Adaptations of Mrs Dalloway.
… of the adaptations of Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway (1925). Within adaptation studies the issue of fidelity and the role of the source novel have been relegated to the sidelines in response to a logophilic prejudice which dominated early studies, and as a consequence intertextuality and …
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Mrs. Dalloway as a Window for Understanding Life
<p>Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway may be dismissed as fiction, and fiction consequently is dismissed as fantasy. However, the novel enables readers to practice an intellectual exercise of meta-awareness that extends beyond the pages and onto real world phenomena. Under a cognitive neuroscience …
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The Philosophy of Time in Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, and The Waves
… specific texts examined for this research are Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, and The Waves as they respond to the philosophical and scientific temporal theories of Henri Bergson, Albert Einstein, and Friedrich Nietzsche. The study highlights the examination of time as a process that has obsessed …
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MATERIAL MEDIATION: WOMEN, CONNECTION, AND VITAL MATERIALISM IN VIRGINIA WOOLF’S MRS DALLOWAY, TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, AND BETWEEN THE ACTS
… call assemblages. I argue that Woolf’s novels Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Between the Acts present a number of examples of female characters, who, in particular, demonstrate what the material theorist Jane Bennett calls a “anticipatory readiness” to perceiving, and validating, 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
… with the chapters moving from Jacob’s Room to Mrs Dalloway, followed by The Waves, and ending with her final work of fiction, Between the Acts. Within this framework I delineate a progression in Woolf’s own theories that marks her growing interest in, and working through of, unexpected loss, as …
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"Devoted to Influenza": An Analysis of English and Nigerian Archival and Literary Depictions of the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic
… also looks at Virginia Woolf’s novel, <em>Mrs. Dalloway </em>(1925), to demonstrate the long recovery from these twin catastrophes. Although <em>Mrs. Dalloway </em>marks the beginning of Woolf’s interest in writing about illness, the novel nonetheless considers the consequences of the war …
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How the soul slips in: Virginia Woolf's (un)natural history of dogs
… instruments of class and gender in Mrs. Dalloway, to thinking more complexly about the dog/human boundary in Orlando. Human-to-animal ontologies are an evaluation of human biopolitical affiliations, where human social categories and function are embedded and reflected in canine …
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Female Voice and Agency in Film Adaptations
… flaw of making anatomy destiny. I consider Mrs. Dalloway, as a poetic, non-linear form, a multi-voiced and multi-determined narrative, which creates a very rich female portrait of its central protagonist and a self-consciously female narrative voice. In addressing the traumas and hysterias …
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Moments of Being: Beauty in Virginia Woolf's Works
… To the Lighthouse (1927), Jacob’s Room (1922), Mrs. Dalloway (1925), and Between the Acts (1941).
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Moments of Being: Beauty in Virginia Woolf's Works
… To the Lighthouse (1927), Jacob’s Room (1922), Mrs. Dalloway (1925), and Between the Acts (1941).
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THE VICTORIAN HERITAGE OF VIRGINIA WOOLF: THE EXTERNAL WORLD IN HER NOVELS (TIME, SETTING, COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE, SOCIETY)
… of society, language, and communication. Mrs. Dalloway and To The Lighthouse are mirror-images of Woolf's attitude towards externality. Mrs. Dalloway depicts an external culture; Clarissa vacillates between her isolated present and the communication of memory. She unifies her worlds at her …
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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
… growth. It reveals how Virginia Woolf, in Mrs. Dalloway and Between the Acts, reconsiders which narrative choices might be appropriate for mobilizing and critiquing arguments about the relationship between city, country, and suburb. The following chapters focus on responses to the English …
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All the Beef to the Heels Were in: Advertising and Plenty in Joyce's Ulysses
… a novel it directly influenced, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925).
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Sapphic reflections of feminine creative power and male interruption in the works of Virginia Woolf
… fragments, is also present in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, A Room of One’s Own, and The Waves. .
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Living With Men : A Novel
… place it in the tradition of Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway." As a book reviewer for the past decade, I have had access to a good deal of Feminist literature. While not specifically in that genre, my book does address the questions raised by such contemporary authors as Midge Dector and Doris …
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