Essays about: "Lily Briscoe"

Found 3 essays containing the words Lily Briscoe.

1. 1. Breaking the Bell Jar?  Femininity in Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar

   University essay from Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Jonna Vikman; [2010]
   Keywords : femininity; gender; identity formation; patriarchy; Virginia Woolf; Sylvia Plath;

   Abstract : This essay focuses on female identity formation in patriarchal society in Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. Both authors portray female characters who struggle with the normative gender identity. READ MORE

3. 2. Lily’s Painting of Self-Recognition:A Lesbian Reading of Woolf’s To The Lighthouse

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle; Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

   Author : Suana Sabic; [2009]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Through the character of Lily Briscoe the essay investigates the homosexual element in Virginia Woolf’s novel To the Lighthouse. The main aim of the essay is to examine Lily’s process of coming to terms with her homosexuality through her painting where the disclosure of Lily’s sexuality emerges. READ MORE

4. 3. Escaping Femininity : the Body and Androgynous Painting in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

   University essay from Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

   Author : Sara Martinsson; [2009]
   Keywords : Virginia Woolf; To the Lighthouse; femininity; androgyny; Lily Briscoe;

   Abstract : This essay focuses on the character of Lily Briscoe in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. From a gender perspective it discusses Lily's striving to exceed her socially constructed position as a woman by attempting to be an artist. At the beginning of the twentieth century women were supposed to be housewives rather than artists. READ MORE