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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Virginia Woolf's"”.
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Virginia Woolf's Interpolated Fiction and Humor
… and readers have considered the body of work by Virginia Woolf in the reflection of a gloomy light. This wide opinion, if not directly caused, is at least enhanced by her numerous negative and even traumatic life experiences. Very little attention has been paid, or focus put, even by the most …
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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 mediation of consciousness in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
… and the world that they inhabit, is generated in Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, and how this is maintained through the novel. Chosen as a prototypical consciousness novel, To The Lighthouse is noted for its complex and difficult narratorial structure and fluid shifts of viewpoint, making it …
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Form and Formlessness in Virginia Woolf's Short Fiction and Beckett's Molloy
A dolgozatom Virginia Woolf és Samuel Beckett műveinek elemzését és összehasonlítását foglalja magában, társadalomkritkikai, művészettörténeti és fenomenológiai szempontból. Az összehasonlítással azt kívánom bemutatni, hogy a két szerző hogyan bontja le a karteziánus gondolkodás kétosztatúságait.
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The common reader and the modernist Bildungsroman : Virginia Woolf's The Waves
… challenge already-existing critical studies of Virginia Woolf's The Waves (1931) that focus on ideas of imperialism, empire and subject-making practices in the novel by arguing for a revisionist reading of The Waves as a Bildungsroman. Unlike the Bildungsroman of the eighteenth and nineteenth …
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How the soul slips in: Virginia Woolf's (un)natural history of dogs
… articulating ideas about class and sexuality in Woolf and her milieu. Her works move from considering dogs as representative 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 …
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The nightingale sings anew: The appropriation of antiquity in Virginia Woolf's "The Waves"
… classical antiquity on the literary aesthetic of Virginia Woolf by focusing on the educational and theoretical assumptions that allowed Woolf to create her most experimental work, The Waves. Inspired by her brother Thoby Stephen and her tutor Janet Case, Woolf enjoyed a very strong and fertile …
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"One world, one life" : the politics of personal connection in Virginia Woolf's The waves
… cheep, chirp; going up and down" (9). Thus Virginia Woolf introduces Rhoda in her opening to The Waves. But almost immediately, this sound is transformed: " 'The birds sang in chorus first,' said Rhoda. 'Now the scullery door is unbarred. Off they fly. Off they fly like a fling of seed. But …
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Woolf's philosophy of literary subjectivity : Virginia Woolf's 'To the lighthouse' and Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist theory
… of existentialism is used as a lens to interpret Woolf's approach to literature as the philosophy of "literary subjectivity." The notion of subjectivity is explored within theoretical existentialism and then applied to Woolf's life and her moment of awakening to subjectivity. To the Lighthouse is …
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There is Always a Deep Below: Reality and Moments of Being in Virginia Woolf's The Waves
This essay explores Virginia Woolf's reality through her 1932 novel The Waves. In the novel, Woolf traces the lives of her six characters from childhood to adulthood. As children, the characters experience moments of revelation or what Woolf refers to as moments of being. These moments allow them …
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Good Phrases Shining, One Wave After Another : A Look at Virginia Woolf's Creative Process and The Waves
… this thesis is first to understand the nature of Virginia Woolf's creative process and second to show that the writing of The Waves is illustrative of the maturity of that process. </strong></p>
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