Download or read book Virginia Woolf s Androgynous Vision in To the Lighthouse and Orlando written by Haifang Xu and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virginia Woolf and the Androgynous Vision written by Nancy Topping Bazin and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Orlando written by Virginia Woolf and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orlando: A Biography, is a fictional work published in 1928. Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period. The novel is semi-biographical based and dedicated to Woolf's lover Vita Sackville-West. Well regarded for it's impact on gender studies and the stylized approach in which it portrays women. The novel was conceived as a "writer's holiday" from more structured and demanding novels. Woolf allowed neither time nor gender to constrain her writing. The protagonist, Orlando, ages only thirty-six years and changes gender from man to woman. This pseudo-biography satirizes more traditional Victorian biographies that emphasize facts and truth in their subjects' lives. Although Orlando may have been intended to be a satire or a holiday, it touches on important issues of gender, self-knowledge, and truth with Virginia Woolf's signature poetic style.
Download or read book Orlando A Biography written by Virginia Woolf and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orlando is generally considered Woolf's most accessible and influential novels. Concerning the 300 year life of a man born during the reign of Elizabeth I and his quest to write a great poem, having love affairs as both man and women against the backdrop of some of the most important moments in European history. This novel has been hugely influential stylistically and is still an important moment in literary history and particularly in women's writing and gender studies. Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer. She is widely hailed as being among the most influential modernist authors of the 20th century and a pioneer of stream of consciousness narration. She suffered numerous nervous breakdowns during her life primarily as a result of the deaths of family members, and it is now believed that she may have suffered from bipolar disorder. In 1941, Woolf drowned herself in the River Ouse at Lewes, aged 59. Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this classic novel now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Download or read book Virginia Woolf and the Androgynous Vision written by Nancy Topping Bazin and published by New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virginia Woolf s Androgynous Quest written by William Thomas Corcoran and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf came to believe that the highest forms of artistic creation are preceded by a merging of the sexes, a form of psychic intercourse, which takes place within the mind of the artist. If this fusion does not take place, the vision or integrity of the finished work of art becomes blurred by a detachable philosophy, directly attributable to the sex of the artist. For the female novelist, struggling into articulation in a literary world dominated by the male, the difficulties of attaining such an integrity are understandably pronounced. Virginia Woolf's androgynous quest is therefore examined on both the personal and artistic levels to show how the successful sexual syntheses partly vitiate the charges of obtrusive feminism and Bloomsbury aestheticism. The first chapter, by exposing the polarities in Virginia Woolf's creation of character - the rational, egocentric male and the intuitive, integrating female - ominously suggests that the intelligent daughter of Leslie Stephen cannot pretend to treat men and ,women objectively. Yet the separate analyses of the sexes are not marked by a uniform denigration of the patriarch and consistent deification of the matriarch, so attention must be shifted to those works which are specifically concerned with the androgynous ideal. The companion pieces, A Room of One's Own and Orlando, in their mingling of self-confession, literary criticism, history, satire and fantasy, are curiously unsatisfying. The special pleading of the manifesto colours the fantasy, so that Orlando* s final statement is more feminist than androgynous. The same conflict of interest between a persistent practical feminism and androgynous idealism is responsible for anomalies in Virginia Woolf's literary criticism. Although Orlando shares a structural weakness with The Years, made necessary by their heroines' moments of androgynous vision, there remains a case for considering Eleanor's sociological androgyny as a more viable achievement. Her fusion of the public and private life, the social and solitary selves, acts as a convincing antecedent to the achievement of the epicene Bernard. Within the context of Virginia Woolf's vein of lyricism, the third chapter examines recurring images and patterns of symbols which become poetic vehicles for the androgynous vision. The search is for correlatives in the physical world which will structurally combine the opposing elements of intellect and intuition, the male and the female. The centrally significant symbol is that of the lighthouse, which, in its physical proportions, combines masculine substructure and feminine light. Again, Lily Briscoe's painting represents the achievement of both personal and artistic androgyny. The painting is completed only when she feels a potent need for both Ramsays, and consequently reconciles the male and female aspects of her own personality. Finally, in making the novelist, Bernard, the spokesman and composite of the other selves, Virginia Woolf has made The Waves her fullest statement of the androgynous theory of writing, as well as illustrating a personal philosophy of life. Bernard celebrates the ideal of the integrated artistic personality, where ratiocination and intuition are harmoniously combined. However, since Virginia Woolf's final artist-figure, Miss La Trobe, is signally unsuccessful in repeating Bernard's achievement, the question of Virginia Woolf's personal androgyny remains conjectural.
Download or read book A Room of One s Own written by Virginia Woolf and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf's playful exploration of a satirical »Oxbridge« became one of the world's most groundbreaking writings on women, writing, fiction, and gender. A Room of One's Own [1929] can be read as one or as six different essays, narrated from an intimate first-person perspective. Actual history blends with narrative and memoir. But perhaps most revolutionary was its address: the book is written by a woman for women. Male readers are compelled to read through women's eyes in a total inversion of the traditional male gaze. VIRGINIA WOOLF [1882–1941] was an English author. With novels like Jacob’s Room [1922], Mrs Dalloway [1925], To the Lighthouse [1927], and Orlando [1928], she became a leading figure of modernism and is considered one of the most important English-language authors of the 20th century. As a thinker, with essays like A Room of One’s Own [1929], Woolf has influenced the women’s movement in many countries.
Download or read book The Seen and the Unseen written by Lisa Cole Ruddick and published by Cambridge : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library of Luminaries Jane Austen written by Zena Alkayat and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the stories behind the stories in this treasurable illustrated biography of Jane Austen. Enchanting illustrations and handwritten text featuring excerpts from Austen's personal letters outline the intimate details of the literary icon's life—her childhood on a farm, the writing of her first novella, her marital woes, the inspiration behind Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, and more. Brimming with delightful details like the objects Austen kept on her desk and how much Emma originally sold for, this beautiful ebook is a lovely new way to celebrate Austen's legacy.
Download or read book Orlando A Biography by Virginia Woolf Book Analysis written by Bright Summaries and published by BrightSummaries.com. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the more straightforward side of Orlando: A Biography with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf, which tells the story of the titular young nobleman who wakes up one day as a woman and lives for centuries without visibly ageing. Through this transformation, Woolf explores love, gender roles and the restrictions imposed on women by society. The character of Orlando was inspired by Woolf’s friend and lover Vita Sackville-West, and was described by Sackville-West’s son as “the longest and most charming love letter in literature”. The novel remains one of Woolf’s most popular novels, and has been studied extensively by academics in the fields of women’s writing and gender studies. Find out everything you need to know about Orlando: A Biography in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
Download or read book To the Lighthouse Annotated written by Virginia Woolf and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This the Annotated Version of the Original Book. This is the Summarized Version of the Original Book. This Summary Version Consists of approx. 45,000 words which are 60% to 70% (approximately) summary of the original Book. The Summary Book is also in 3 parts explaining each part Separately. The Description of the eBook is written as follows.Part-1The novel is set in the Ramsays' summer home in the Hebrides, on the Isle of Skye. The section begins with Mrs. Ramsay assuring her son James that they should be able to visit the lighthouse on the next day. This prediction is denied by Mr. Ramsay, who voices his certainty that the weather will not be clear, an opinion that forces a certain tension between Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay, and also between Mr. Ramsay and James. This particular incident is referred to on various occasions throughout the section, especially in the context of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay's relationship. The Ramsays and their eight children have been joined at the house by a number of friends and colleagues. One of them, Lily Briscoe, begins the novel as a young, uncertain painter attempting a portrait of Mrs. Ramsay and James. Briscoe finds herself plagued by doubts throughout the novel, doubts largely fed by the claims of Charles Tansley, another guest, who asserts that women can neither paint nor write. Tansley himself is an admirer of Mr. Ramsay, a philosophy professor, and his academic treatises. When Augustus Carmichael, a visiting poet, asks for a second serving of soup, Mr. Ramsay nearly snaps at him. Mrs. Ramsay is herself out of sorts when Paul Rayley and Minta Doyle, two acquaintances whom she has brought together in engagement, arrive late to dinner, as Minta has lost her grandmother's brooch on the beach.Part-2The second section "Time passes" gives a sense of time passing, absence, and death. Ten years pass, during which the First World War begins and ends. Mrs. Ramsay dies, as do two of her children - Prue dies from complications of childbirth, and Andrew is killed in the war. Mr. Ramsay has left adrift without his wife to praise and comfort him during his bouts of fear and anguish regarding the longevity of his philosophical work. This section is told from an omniscient point of view and occasionally from Mrs. McNab's point of view. Mrs. McNab worked in Ramsay's house since the beginning, and thus provides a clear view of how things have changed in the time the summer house has been unoccupied.Part-3In the final section, "The Lighthouse", some of the remaining Ramsays and other guests return to their summer home ten years after the events of Part I. Mr. Ramsay finally plans on taking the long-delayed trip to the lighthouse with daughter Cam(illa) and son James (the remaining Ramsay children are virtually unmentioned in the final section). The trip almost does not happen, as the children are not ready, but they eventually set off. As they travel, the children are silent in protest at their father for forcing them to come along. However, James keeps the sailing boat steady and rather than receiving the harsh words he has come to expect from his father, he hears praise, providing a rare moment of empathy between father and son; Cam's attitude towards her father changes also, from resentment to eventual admiration. The son cuts a piece of flesh from a fish he has caught to use for bait, throwing the injured fish back into the sea. While they set sail for the lighthouse, Lily attempts to finally complete the painting she has held in her mind since the start of the novel. She reconsiders her memory of Mrs. and Mr. Ramsay, balancing the multitude of impressions from ten years ago in an effort to reach towards an objective truth about Mrs. Ramsay and life itself. Upon finishing the painting (just as the sailing party reaches the lighthouse) and seeing that it satisfies her, she realizes that the execution of her vision is more important to her than the idea of leaving some sort of legacy in her work.
Download or read book To the Lighthouse written by Virginia Woolf and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1981 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To the Lighthouse features the serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests who are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Virginia Woolf constructs a moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflicts within a marriage."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Orlando written by Virginia Woolf and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1973-10-24 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orlando doubles as first an Elizabethan nobleman and then as a Victorian heroine who undergoes all the transitions of history in this novel that examines sex roles and social mores
Download or read book Androgyny in Virginia Woolf s Orlando written by Mona Baumann and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Modernism in Focus: Virginia Woolf, language: English, abstract: Virginia Woolf is one of the most discussed writers, because she created stories with a critical eye, always keeping in mind the challenges of being a female in the twentieth century. The fictional biography guides the reader through the protagonist’s daily life, while simultaneously showing that his life is not daily at all. The author provided a balance within Orlando’s nature by creating a character the reader can, on one hand, relate to, but who, on the other hand, is special and therefore appears different. With contacts to the Bloomsbury Group, Woolf had the possibility to write her critical and controversial works in an encouraging environment.
Download or read book Virginia Woolf written by Eileen Barrett and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last two decades have seen a resurgence of critical and popular attention to Virginia Woolf's life and work. Such traditional institutions as The New York Review of Books now pair her with William Shakespeare in promotional advertisements; her face is used to sell everything from Barnes & Noble books to Bass Ale. Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings represents the first book devoted to Woolf's lesbianism. Divided into two sections, Lesbian Intersections and Lesbian Readings of Woolf's Novels, these essays focus on how Woolf's private and public experience and knowledge of same-sex love influences her shorter fiction and novels. Lesbian Intersections includes personal narratives that trace the experience of reading Woolf through the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. Lesbian Readings of Woolf's Novels provides lesbian interpretations of the individual novels, including Orlando, The Waves, and The Years. Breaking new ground in our understanding of the role Woolf's love for women plays in her major writing, these essays shift the emphasis of lesbian interpretations from Woolf's life to her work.
Download or read book A Note of Explanation written by Vita Sackville-West and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An extraordinary story . . . of a fashionable creature who flits in and out of fairy tales and historical epochs . . Exquisite.” —The Wall Street Journal A Note of Explanation is a previously unknown work by iconic writer Vita Sackville-West. Written in 1922, it was recently rediscovered as a miniature book in Queen Mary’s dollhouse in Windsor Castle. Witty and stylish, the story recounts the antics of a time-traveling sprite who inhabits the dollhouse. This illustrated e-book edition presents the story for the first time since 1924. Lovers of literature and history will rejoice in this irresistible one-of-a-kind e-book.
Download or read book To the Lighthouse written by Virginia Woolf and published by Chatto & Windus. This book was released on 1983 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
