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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Mrs. Ramsay"”.
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Mrs. Ramsay's Art in To the Lighthouse
… for a female tradition through the struggles Mrs. Ramsay faces as an unfulfilled artist working through the only mode of art open to her, her role as angel in the house, and her influence over the painter Lily Briscoe, whom many critics consider to be a surrogate daughter to Mrs. Ramsay. Lily …
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Mourning Gendered Discipline: Virginia Woolf and the Modern Elegy
… Warren Smith's mourning in To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway. Through the characterization of Lily--a female mourner who makes efforts to control grief, to reject the legacy left by the dead, and to consolidate her own identity in mourning for Mrs. Ramsay--Woolf breaks the traditional …
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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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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 …