Essays about: "Virginia Woolf"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 41 essays containing the words Virginia Woolf.

1. 21. In Search of a Room of Their Own

   University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

   Author : Elsa Jannborg; [2015]
   Keywords : Fittja; Youth Centre; Girls Night; participant observation; fiction; Virginia Woolf; Marcel Proust; Girls; Women;

   Abstract : This diploma thesis in architecture is a book composed of a combination of embedded anthropological documentation and creative fiction, written with help from Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust. It is a story built up, fragment by fragment, that describesregular visits to the Girls Night events at a Youth Centre in Fittja, in Northern Botkyrka, south of Stockholm, where the author went to meet and spend time with a group of local girls on Thursday evenings in the Spring of 2015. READ MORE

3. 22. On Borrowed Time:An examination of the representation of time in To the Lighthouse

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Daniel Frülén; [2014-10-09]
   Keywords : To the Lighthouse; Virginia Woolf; Time; Henri Bergson; Modernism; Chronolibido;

   Abstract : This study elaborates on the relationship between the representation of time and how it is perceived in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. Therefore, this paper will explore the link between time, modernism and the structure of To the Lighthouse by doing a close reading and using a narratological approach. READ MORE

4. 23. When the Sealing Matter Cracks. The ‘Real’ in Virginia Woolf’s A Sketch of the Past.

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Lotta Frändberg; [2014-02-19]
   Keywords : engelska; Virginia Woolf; A Sketch of the Past; phenomenology; Merleau-Ponty;

   Abstract : In this essay, I explore the concept of the real in Virginia Woolf’s autobiographical text A Sketch of the Past. My thesis is that the real here refers to a quality of experience, characterized by sensuous openness to the world. This quality of openness resides in certain moments in a life. READ MORE

5. 24. Symbolism in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Jessica Johnston; [2014-02-19]
   Keywords : engelska; Virginia Woolf; Mrs. Dalloway; symbolism; modernism;

   Abstract : The modernists wanted to give as true a picture of the world as possible and experimented with narrative techniques and devices such as stream of consciousness, fragmentation and symbolism, which meant a break with more traditional writing. Symbols have often been used to add a mystical element to works of literature and have always intrigued readers, promising to reveal hidden meanings. READ MORE

6. 25. Virginia Woolf's Orlando and the Feminist Reader : Feminist Reader Response Theory in Orlando: a Biography

   University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Alexandra Blomdahl; [2014]
   Keywords : Virginia Woolf; Feminism; Feminist Reader Response Theory; Reader Response; Orlando; Feminist Reader; Female Reader;

   Abstract : This essay is a close reading of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: a Biography that focuses on representation of gender in the novel and the possible response it elicits in the reader. The essay argues that the implied reader of Orlando - as manifested in the novel - is a feminist one, as well as it explores the possibility of this implied feminist reader being a female. READ MORE