Download or read book Unifying Strategies in Virginia Woolf s Experimental Fiction written by Adrian Velicu and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Hollow of the Wave written by Bonnie Kime Scott and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the writings and life of Virginia Woolf, In the Hollow of the Wave looks at how Woolf treated "nature" as a deliberate discourse that shaped her way of thinking about the self and the environment and her strategies for challenging the imbalances of power in her own culture--all of which remain valuable in the framing of our discourse about nature today. Bonnie Kime Scott explores Woolf's uses of nature, including her satire of scientific professionals and amateurs, her parodies of the imperial conquest of land, her representations of flora and fauna, her application of post-impressionist and modernist modes, her merging of characters with the environment, and her ventures across the species barrier. In shedding light on this discourse of Woolf and the natural world, Scott brings to our attention a critical, neglected, and contested aspect of modernism itself. She relies on feminist, ecofeminist, and postcolonial theory in the process, drawing also on the relatively recent field of animal studies. By focusing on multiple registers of Woolf's uses of nature, the author paves the way for more extended research in modernist practices, natural history, garden and landscape studies, and lesbian/queer studies.
Download or read book The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Europe written by Mary Ann Caws and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-12-22 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive coverage of Woolf's reception across Europe with contributions from leading international critics and translators.
Download or read book Collective Traumas written by Conny Mithander and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collective Traumas is about the traumatic European history of the 20th century - war, genocide, dictatorship, ethnic cleansing - and how individuals, communities and nations have dealt with their dark past through remembrance, historiography and legal settlements. Memories, and especially collective memories, serve as foundations for national identities and are politically charged. Regardless whether memory is used to support or to challenge established ideologies, it is inevitably subject to political tensions. Consequently, memory, history and amnesia tend to be used and abused for different political and ideological purposes. From the perspectives of historical, literary and visual studies the essays focus on how the experiences of war and profound conflict have been represented and remembered in different national cultures and communities. This volume is a vital contribution to memory studies and trauma theory. Collective Traumas is a result of the multidisciplinary research project on Memory Culture that was initiated in 2002 at Karlstad University, Sweden. A previous publication with Peter Lang is Memory Work: The Theory and Practice of Memory (2005).
Download or read book The Temporal Horizon written by Karin Linton and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation studies the theme of time in Anne Tyler's fiction and centres specifically on how Jeremy Pauling in Celestial Navigation, Justine Peck in Searching for Caleb, Cody Tull in Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, and Macon Leary in The Accidental Tourist respond to the losses brought about by the passage of time. The introduction establishes similarities between Tyler's emphasis on change, the passage of time, and reactions to change, and Paul Fraisse's focus on temporally organized behaviour. the three interrelated perspectives of the past, the present, and the future. The temporal horizon is used in this dissertation as a key to interpreting the temporal awareness of Tyler's characters and their behaviour in adapting to change. It is often memories of crises, such as unexpected death or desertion, which predominate the protagonist's temporal outlook at the expense of the present and the future. protagonists is to free themselves from the past and discover a greater significance in the present and the future. With the exception of Jeremy Pauling, they finally succeed in altering the hold of the past, and as a consequence of this shift of vision a better balance between their three temporal perspectives is achieved. dissertation, indicates that the majority of her protagonists in the end reach a moment of buoyancy when, at least temporarily in control of time, they apparently trust in the possibility of altering their situations. Because of this anticipation they also modify their behaviour and take steps to give their futures a new direction. While it may be an open question where the passage of time may lead them, the thesis indicates that in many of Anne Tyler's novels the endings seem suggestive of affirmative change.
Download or read book Reading and Writing Krio written by Eldred D. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume contains eight papers which were delivered at a workshop organised to review some of the practical problems facing readers and writers of Krio, an English-oriented creole language which has its centre in Freetown, Sierra Leone."--T.p. verso.
Download or read book On the Brink written by Monica Correa Fryckstedt and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work attempts a new approach to mid-Victorian fiction. Unbiased, as to what novels or novelists merit examination, the author uses contemporary reviews as her guide, allowing us to see the fiction scene during 1866 as it looked to the Victorians themselves. are mentioned in modern literary surveys. Much of this unknown fiction reveals a great deal about the Victorian mind, and the reviewers, whether their reactions arose out of admiration, bewilderment or horror, provide fresh insights into the tastes and interests of the reading public of the 1860s. Thomas, Charlotte Riddell, Emma Newby, Edmund Yates and Percy Fitzgerald treated such delicate subjects as marital estrangement and the sexual needs of middleclass women with far more candour than did the major novelists. helps us see through the official facade of Victorian morality, progress and success and gives evidence that a great uncertainty of values prevailed among novelists and their readers.
Download or read book Escaping the Castle of Patriarchy written by Kerstin W. Shands and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The themes of Gail Godwin's novels parallel issues brought into focus by American feminism during the 1970s and 1980s. Of primary importance in Godwin's fiction is individual female development. It is intimately tied to, even dependent upon, her female characters' relations to men. This study is an exploration of developmental patterns among the main female characters in Gail Godwin's novels from these decades. presented in an overview intended to provide a background to Godwin's fiction. Chapter 2 outlines the feminism inherent in Godwin's novels and introduces her treatment of the theme of Southern womanhood, so important in most of her work. Chapters 3 through 5 present close readings of her novels, focusing on female patterns of developments as linked to the treatment of male-female relationships. The conclusion summarizes the above analyses.
Download or read book Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homage to Ireland written by Birgit Bramsbäck and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work on aspects of Irish culture, literature and language, including papers on Yeats, Joyce, James, Stephens and Liam O'Flaherty.
Download or read book The Shakespearean Ideal written by Lennart Nyberg and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Domestic Disharmony and Industrialization in D H Lawrence s Early Fiction written by Marko Modiano and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy written by Elsa Högberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting Virginia Woolf's most experimental novels, Elsa Högberg explores how Woolf's writing prompts us to re-examine the meaning of intimacy. In Högberg's readings of Jacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves, intimacy is revealed to inhere not just in close relations with the ones we know and love, but primarily within those unsettling encounters which suspend our comfortable sense of ourselves as separate from others and the world around us. Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy locates this radical notion of intimacy at the heart of Woolf's introspective, modernist poetics as well as her ethical and political resistance to violence, aggressive nationalism and fascism. Engaging contemporary theory – particularly the more recent works of Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva – it reads Woolf as a writer and ethical thinker whose vital contribution to the modernist scene of inter-war Britain is strikingly relevant to critical debates around intimacy, affect, violence and vulnerability in our own time.
Download or read book The Enabling of Judgement written by Åke Bergvall and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study constitutes a project of intercultural communication, centering on the texts of Sir Philip Sidney. It attempts to trace Sidney's response to two main Renaissance currents: the rhetorical movement associated with Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, and their Renaissance followers and the conglomerate of theories named after Plato but containing large portions of Plotinian, Augustinian, and other ideas. Chapter 1 provides the theoretical background to the rhetorical movement. Chapter 2 then discusses Sidney's stance regarding neoplatonism. The remaining three chapters survey Sidney's literary works, from the early Lady of May to the late revisions of the Arcadia. These chapters exemplify those aspects of Sidney's poetics that have been discussed in the preceding two chapters. emphasis upon Sidney's desire to educate his readers. Sidney reacted against the premises of Florentine neoplatonism, and in his works he criticized the resulting Petrarchism. But thanks to the Augustinian synthesis of Platonism and Christianity he was nevertheless able to draw from a rich Platonic heritage. He devised a poetics which was based on a mixture of Augustinian Platonism and Aristotleianism, and which had a strong rhetorical bias. communicative model by which these ideas could be transmitted to the reader. He thereby produced a text which looked beyond itself, on the one hand to the world of ideas from which it was figured forth, and, on the other, to the realization of these ideas in the reader. For this communication between the readers and the world of ideas to be effectual, Sidney developed a fiction that not only demands careful analysis but actually helps to develop the mental faculties of its readers. The dialectical structure of his literary works, from the smallest segment of sentence structure to the largest narrative devices, forces the reader to become an informed judge.
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Download or read book Anglo Irish and Irish Literature written by International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature. International Congress and published by Uppsala : University of Uppsala ; Stockholm : Distributor, Almqvist & Wiksell International. This book was released on 1988 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English in Speech and Writing written by Gunnel Tottie and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
