Essays about: "Virginia Woolf"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 41 essays containing the words Virginia Woolf.

  1. 1. Shifting, Linking and Framing : The Case for Technology as a Coherence-Making Textual Device in Literary Realism

    University essay from Karlstads universitet

    Author : Ruben Brundell; [2024]
    Keywords : Realism; Coherence; Technology; Roland Barthes; Eric Auerbach; Ian Watt; Gabrielle Zevin; Melina Marchetta; Daniel Defoe; Gustave Flaubert; Virginia Woolf;

    Abstract : Literary realism, that is, texts that seek to represent the actual in literature while achieving a sense of verisimilitude, have historically been analyzed and defined by a number of critics. These critics have, with differing approaches, attempted to make comprehensible what it is that constitutes the realist text. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Voyage Out: Water in Nostalgic Art : A Corpus-Assisted Study of the Nostalgic Tropes of Water in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Egzona Demaj; [2023]
    Keywords : Nostalgic Art; Emotions; Experience; Tropes; Corpus Methods;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to examine nostalgic art through the usage of water tropes in Virginia Woolf’s 1915 novel The Voyage Out. Previous research on nostalgic aesthetics found that tropes play a crucial role in eliciting nostalgic emotions in the reader. These studies were primarily conducted using close reading approaches. READ MORE

  4. 3. Make Room for the New Woman : The Extinction of the Earth-bound Angel in Three Short Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Kate Chopin

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Julia Hellström; [2023]
    Keywords : Feminist consciousness; gender; space; patriarchy; repression;

    Abstract : This essay explores the feminist message in Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “An Extinct Angel” and “The Yellow Wallpaper”. The relationship between space and gender will be examined in connection with theoretical conceptions of female consciousness. READ MORE

  5. 4. 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 litteraturer

    Author : Maria Palmqvist; [2022-06-29]
    Keywords : Virginia Woolf; synesthesia; synesthetic aesthetics; Mrs Dalloway; To the Lighthouse; modernism;

    Abstract : 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

  6. 5. Using Literary Theories to Acquire Critical Consciousness in the EFL Classroom : A Critical Approach to Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Gustaf Bärlund; [2022]
    Keywords : Marxist literary theory; Virginia Woolf; Mrs. Dalloway; ideology; critical pedagogy; critical literacy pedagogy; upper secondary school; EFL classroom;

    Abstract : This essay applies a critical lens to Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf. The aim of this essay is to investigate if and how Mrs. Dalloway can be utilized for students to practice critical consciousness in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom. READ MORE