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Virginia Woolf & the Ontology of the Swerve
… ontology of the swerve, or clinamen, influenced Virginia Woolf's writing. By using Gilles Deleuze, Michel Serres and likeminded theorists, the idea is to not only explicate Lucretian thought, but to also succinctly incorporate it into the Woolfian oeuvre.</p>
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Virginia Woolf: The Bookbinder and the Bibliophile
<p>The triumph of Virginia Woolf’s career as a novelist is one of the most famous stories of the 20th century. Her career as a publisher of her home-grown Hogarth Press is a little less widely acknowledged. But Virginia Woolf is known to have engaged herself for many hours folding, stapling, sewing …
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Characterization in the Novels of Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf and cinema : Adaptations of Mrs Dalloway.
… a detailed consideration 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 …
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Mourning Gendered Discipline: Virginia Woolf and the Modern Elegy
The thesis defines Woolf's modernization of elegy from the perspective of gender. Western men and women have been trained to obey two distinct sets of codes in traditional mourning culture and have experienced differently problematic cultural sanctions in responding to loss. This study explores how …
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"Pieces in a Pattern": Virginia Woolf and Family Memory
<p>By examining two memoirs written by Virginia Woolf and one memoir written by her father, Leslie Stephen, along with Woolf's novel, <em>To the Lighthouse</em>, I will investigate the memoir genre, particularly in the context of understanding a shared history. These four texts provide a means of …
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Ideology, Production, and Reproduction: Virginia Woolf, Marie Stopes, and H.D.
The literary works of Virginia Woolf, Marie Stopes, and H.D. share an interest in the crossovers between human, ideological, and cultural reproduction during the interwar years. However, an extended study on their contrasting views about life and art in the aftermath of World War One is yet to …
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Radical Interiorities, Aesthetic Selves: Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, Virginia Woolf
<p>In her essay “On Being Ill” (1926), Virginia Woolf writes “We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others…There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown.” My dissertation explores how the novel’s attempts to represent this inherently …
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“life Is A Luminous Halo”: Gender And Androgynous Time In Virginia Woolf
… examines the role of representations of time in Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room, Orlando: A Biography, and The Waves to illustrate the development of an androgynous time that is located between the inner subjective time of each individual, inspired by Henri Bergson’s durée, and the stunted measured …
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Weaving the Fabric of Reality: Consciousness in the Novels of Virginia Woolf
The purpose of this thesis is to track Virginia Woolf's enactment of conscious experience over the course of her 3 most consciousness forward novels, To the Lighthouse (1927), The Waves (1931), and Mrs. Dalloway (1925). This thesis aims to examine Woolf's ideas and theories about individual …
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Forms of cohesion : the development of style in the novels of Virginia Woolf
… the changing forms of cohesion in the novels of Virginia Woolf, will use the distinction between the metaphoric and metonymic modes as the basis of its argument. The study will be divided into 5 parts: the development of style and change; in the form of cohesion; textual cohesion; structural …
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Greek antiquity, women’s modernity: hellenism in the work of Michael Field, Amy Levy and Virginia Woolf [Antichità greca, modernità delle donne: l’ellenismo nelle opere di Michael Field, Amy Levy e Virginia Woolf]
… Katharine Bradley ed Edith Cooper), Amy Levy e Virginia Woolf. Inserite nel tardo vittorianesimo e in dialogo con i primi orizzonti modernisti, queste autrici condividono un confronto con l’antico e le identità queer che forniscono una cornice analitica unitaria. Il lavoro adotta la metodologia …
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A Virginia Woolf of One's Own: Consequences of Adaptation in Michael Cunningham's The Hours
… novel The Hours, which is an adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and the 2002 film adaptation of Cunningham's novel. However, my thesis also investigates a different kind of adaptation: the adaptation of a literary and historical figure. By including in The Hours a fictionalization …
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Sapphic reflections of feminine creative power and male interruption in the works of Virginia Woolf
… theory and gender studies, the knowledge that Virginia Woolf was probably bisexual has come to the forefront of scholarship concerning the writer and her works. With queer theory has come an interest in Sapphism, a term evoking Sappho, the only female lyric poet for whom any poetry remains. …
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THE VICTORIAN HERITAGE OF VIRGINIA WOOLF: THE EXTERNAL WORLD IN HER NOVELS (TIME, SETTING, COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE, SOCIETY)
Woolf's Victorian background made her ambivalent towards the external world of time, place, history, society, physical phenomena, and language. The Victorian Age stressed factualism, time, and place, embracing society and rejecting individuality, emotion, and aestheticism. Woolf's father enforced …
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Matriarchal myth-making for a postpatriarchal age: The anti-war writing of Virginia Woolf and Hilda Doolittle
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961) lived and wrote during a period of political and ideological upheaval when the world wars, lesbian and gay, women's and psychoanalytic movements of their time challenged traditional assumptions about human nature and cultural values. …
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The imperfect librarians: myth and resistance in Marcel Proust, Johannes V. Jensen, Virginia Woolf, and Jorge Luis Borges
… du temps perdu, Johannes V. Jensen's Myths , Virginia Woolf's novels To The Lighthouse and The Waves, and the work of Jorge Luis Borges. My dissertation focuses neither on uncovering mythical allusions, which would entail what T. S. Eliot called a "mythical method" in Joyce, nor on dispersing …
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Making Waves: The Mermaid as Female Muse, with Special Reference to the Writings of H.D and Virginia Woolf
… exploration of mermaid images in the texts of Virginia Woolf and H.D. The mermaid is a hybrid figure, her space liminal. In her ambiguity she cannot be encompassed within the rigid categories of a world defined by binaries. Her position as an outsider to the dominant culture enables her to …
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