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Chronolibidinal Reading: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov
… moved by a work of art. Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Vladimir Nabokov all sought to transform the art of the novel to convey the complexities of temporal experience and the vulnerability of mortal life. Nevertheless, their works have persistently been read in terms of a desire to transcend …
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Virginia Woolf & the Ontology of the Swerve
… 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.
… 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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Moments of Seeing: Woolf, Lewis, and Modernist Exteriority
… that the critical and creative work of Virginia Woolf and Wyndham Lewis, while standing at opposite ends of some glaring contradictions in the modernist period, explores a similar set of verbal and visual aesthetic problems that foregrounds the role of the exterior in the well-documented …
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Playing Modern: Essaying, 1880–1920, Wilde, Chesterton, Woolf
… Wilde, G. K. Chesterton, and Virginia Woolf—all of whom, in their styling of the essay, embody different moments and essayistic registers in the transitions of modernity and reveal the cross-fertilising relationship between essaying and what is meant by ‘the modern’.
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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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The Mystical Orientation of Virgina Woolf: Some General Comments
… one. I am going to examine Virginia Woolf's attitudes towards the mystery of transcendence, towards mysticism and towards death, first as she shows it in her own person through her diary and through a few comments of her husband and friends. Then, because even a cursory examination of …
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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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Woolf and Freud: A dialogue between Woolf's fiction and psychanalytic theory
… to consider a dialogue that exists between Woolf's fiction and psychoanalytic theory, namely Freud's theories on sexual identity that were being published by Woolf's own Hogarth Press much around the same time as her earlier works. It is the contention of this thesis that not only do Woolf s …
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“life Is A Luminous Halo”: Gender And Androgynous Time In Virginia Woolf
… 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 time of …
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Murdoch, Woolf, Rhys, and the Ethics of the Resistance to Narrative Closure
… and formal closure in the novels of Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys. Murdoch's configuration of resistance to narrative form provides a grammatical and lexical framework for uncovering and foregrounding the specifically ethical investments Woolf and Rhys have in resisting narrative closure. This …
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Embodied female voices: sexuality and artistry in Woolf, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett
… Female Voices: Sexuality and Artistry in Woolf, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett” investigates modernist literary techniques for creating a female character with a voice who is also active and expressive in her sexuality. These canonical modernist authors found new ways to represent women as …
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Austen and Woolf Revisited: Muddy Petticoats, Sally's Kiss, and the Neoliberal Now
… of mythologizing women writers, specifically Woolf and Austen, and transforming them into their own famous characters. Using various writings that theorize women's voices, sense of agency, and political autonomy in relationship with the public/private dichotomy, this project argues that women …
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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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