Essays about: "Virginia Woolf and Modernism"
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1. TANGLED IN A GOLDEN MESH Synesthesia in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : While synesthesia is generally considered to be a subjective representation of one's perception of the world, this essay seeks to problematise and to extend the notion of synesthesia solely being a trait of subjectivity, suggesting that is also works as a method of connection. In the literary field of modernism the idea of merging the senses into an all-encompassing experience has been prominent and widely explored. READ MORE
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2. An Imperfect World, Imperfectly Retold : Mimetic Uncertainty in Early, Late, and Meta-Modern Fiction
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Proposing the concept of mimetic uncertainty, this project aims to provide a critical inquiry into the correspondence of unreliable narration and realism. Building on Springett (2013) and Olsen (2003), a distinction between narratorial unreliability and uncertainty is proposed to denote whether a narrator explicitly signals an awareness of their fallible narration. READ MORE
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3. Beyond Vision: Eyeless Writing in Virginia Woolf's The Waves
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : In the early 20thcentury, a “crisis of ocularcentrism” arose in philosophy, replacing the Cartesian epistemological notion of a disembodied mind inspecting the object-world from the outside with an ontological and phenomenological approach to vision and being, embedding humans corporeally in a world exceeding their perceptual horizon (Jay 94). In response, modernist artists abandoned realist and naturalist techniques, rejecting mimetic representation, and experimented with new artistic forms, trying to account for the new complexity of life. READ MORE
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4. FIN DE MILLENNIUM, FIN DE BINAIRE. Analysing Queerness in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : The aim of this essay is to analyse Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando from a queer perspective, focusing both on transgenderism as well as bisexuality and pansexuality. The questions the essay tries to answer is if Orlando is queer, and to what extent this is portrayed in a respectful manner. READ MORE
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5. Illuminating Inner Life : A Comparison of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Arthur Schnitzler's Fräulein Else
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : In the early 20th century, authors increasingly experimented with literary techniques striving towards two common aims: to illumine the inner life of their protagonists and to diverge from conventional forms of literary representations of reality. This shared endeavour was sparked by changes in society: industrialisation, developments in psychology, and the gradual decay of empires, such as the Victorian (1837–1901) and the Austro-Hungarian (1867–1918). READ MORE
