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Virginia Woolf, Topics of:
-Social Class
-Regret & Grief
-Past vs.…
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway (1925):
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The Hours (2002)
Mrs. Dalloway re-imagined over two time periods, (1950s and 2000s) and Woolf's own life.
The novel follows Clarissa Dalloway, and a variety of other characters over the course of a single day. It examines the characters's relationships to one another, their regrets, and time.
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Topics of:
-Social Class
-Regret & Grief
-Past vs. Present
-True Self vs. Facade
-Illness (mental and physical)
-War (+aftermath of war)
-Memory
-Human Relationships
-Daily Life
-^Critique of Social System
-Death of a Social Class
Topics of:
-^Feminism
-Women's right to (equal) education
-Money
-Art
-Literature as a form of art
-Racism (Walker essay)
Topics of:
-^Gender
-^Time
-Nationalism
-Empire
-Race
-Sexuality
-Subversion of the marriage plot
-Class
-Human insignificance
-Feminism
"How the individual is shaped (or deformed) by his social environment" (Zwerdling 69)
"Fiction is contemplative, not an active art" (69)
"attempt to understand an alien, powerful class whose existence in some way determines her own" (70)
"The fundamental conflict in Mrs. Dalloway is between those who identify with Establishment "dominant" and "leadership" and those who resist or are repelled by it" (75)
"The process by which an independent, responsive, emotionally supple young man or woman is gradually transformed into a conventional member of his own class" (78)
"The experiential reality of these cumulative intersecting blows" (Outka 135)
"the way mental and physical illness are so often inextricably linked" (135)
Film adaptation of Orlando starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando. Loses some of the effect from Orlando's transition because of this.
Biography of the titular Orlando. Beginning in the 1600s spanning 300 years into the 20th Century. The protagonist's gender changes about halfway through the book, further emphasizing themes of gender and sexuality. Issues of racism.
-"The structure of biography is biology" (Eagleton)
-Reproductive time as the temporal logic of standard biographies, and his contemporary impatience with the chronological predictability of biological form" (Micir 114)
-"biography is both a form of historical preservation and a kind of extralegal inheritance claim-a plea for the affective and aesthetic recognition of those who are so often misrecognized and disinherited by the law." (Micir 129)
-Critiques Woolf's white-centered feminism
-"any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century [insert "eighteenth century," insert "black woman," insert "born or made a slave"] would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended her days in some lonely cottage outside the village" (Walker 404)
-Challenges Woolf's Judith Shakespeare creation with the reality of black peoples' struggles
A novel divided into 3 parts. Follows the Ramsay family and a small group of family friends. Deals mostly with the topic of time, art, and interpersonal relationships.
Topics of:
-^Time
-^Art
-Meaning of art
-Women in the domestic sphere
-Family
-Sexuality
-Racism (not critique, just Woolf being racist)
-Human insignificance
-"The long philosophical tradition Woolf is mocking stretches back to Plato's mistrust of the mutable world of earthly things, but takes its distinctive modern form with Renaissance humanism." (861)
-Western obsession with domination over the natural world. The time passes section of the novel is a direct opposition to that belief. Critique of that philosophy.
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Epistolary novel-length essay written in 3 parts. Woolf's response to the question, 'how does one stop war?' (with help from woman). A discussion very similar to A Room of One's Own, but with a more argumentative edge. Focuses on the plight of upper middle class women, "the daughters of educated men."