Virginia Woolf was born in January 25, 1882 as Adeline Virginia Stephen and it means that she was a child of late-Victorian period which means that she grew with the times into Modernism. ... In 1912, Virginia got married with Leonard Woolf in St. ... Virginia Woolf never went to school but her father allowed her to access his father's library. ... Dorothy Richarson's Pilgrimage was written in 1915-35 and it is a collection of thirteen novels which are based on author's own life between 1891 and 1915. ... Another well-known writer for this technique is Virginia Woolf and she use...

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 A Homosexual Study of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. ... Virginia Woolf is famous for the use of stream of consciousness, which allowed her to bore right into the thoughts of her characters and reveal the workings of their minds (Kokkonen 3). ... This research paper will look at the Gender Studies and Queer Theory with main focus on Homosexual Study on Virginia Woolf's Mrs. ... "A Feminist Perspective of Virginia Woolf's Selected Novels: Mrs. ... Gender Study Virginia Woolf asserts in A Room of One's Own (1925) that women must reject the social construct of femaleness ...

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Virginia Woolf, too, channels in her novel, A Room of One's Own, a whole thought process, based on her thoughtful experiences, reflecting on the topic of women and fiction, on attaining a form of sovereignty. ... Virginia Woolf draws on the same aspect of experiencing "authentic" thoughts, by incidents that she comes across while she experienced different incidents in the boys" college and later on in the girls" college. ... Her main idea was to present an elegant piece of work, on the struggles of woman, mixed within as being a woman in general, as being authors, as being subject of fi...

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Narrative peculiarities in Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway- This essay (that I would rather consider as an analysis) will deal with the narration, narrator and narrative techniques of V. ... Virginia Woolf probably is one of the most famous women writers - mostly because of her ability to reflect the inner world of a woman. ... In "The Gender of Narration in Virginia Woolf's early novels-, one can find interesting lines that also would correspondent to my personal view of V. ... Probably it could be said that most of Virginia Woolf's characters are quite unreliable as narrators;...

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These general ideas and numerous others are present throughout Charlotte Bronte's novel, Jane Eyre, and Virginia Woolf's essay, A Room of One's Own. ... Jane Eyre and A Room of One's Own ultimately represent the personalities of their authors and exemplify their beliefs and courageous qualities. ... Throughout Woolf's essay, Woolf makes several specific references to Bronte's novel and comments on her writing style and structure. ... Mary comes across Bronte's novel, Jane Eyre and in the paragraph she reads, Jane Eyre is contemplating the feelings men and...

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Theoretically, gender separates authors in no more of a respect than do the author's birthstone or favorite color. ... Virginia Woolf provides a first-hand account of such discrimination inA Room of One's Own? ... Woolf herself was even denied the right to situate alongside a riverbed, allowing her to concentrate on writing. ... (24) Supportive of Woolf and sharing similar views, is an anonymous article from Cultural Conversations entitledTimes Literary Supplement,? ... While Woolf provided a first-hand account of women's deprivation, Hooks? ...

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Moody, in his book Virginia Woolf, sheds some light on the different, and opposing roles of the parents: Mr. ... In her book, The Three-Fold Nature of Reality in the Novels of Virginia Woolf, Josephine Schaefer sheds further light on the nature and function of Mr. ... Woolf allows us into Mrs. ...

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In the Gilbert and Gubar essay they refer to Virginia Woolf and the "Woolfian Act". ... These characteristics clearly make her out to be the angel however by the end of the film Beth's hair is in disarray similar to that of Alex Forrest's hair. ... In "The Queen's Looking Glass" the authors say when you look into the mirror what you see is what's given back to you. ... In this scene both women look very similar to each other showing both sides of their angel and monster characteristics. ...

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Authors seeking newer and more profound ways of interpreting and expressing their sorrowful realities developed writing styles that did not adhere to previous rules or methods. ... William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce are three examples of famous authors who employed this technique. ... Similar to the authors of the time, artists of all kinds felt the need to express themselves in increasingly abstract and experimental ways. ... Expressionism was similar, and tried to capture the feelings and emotions of human beings on canvas, rather than discernable shapes. ...

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She had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air" (Woolf, 1996 P.5.) ... Clarissa is analysed in terms of her life, personality, and thought process throughout the book by the author and other characters. ... Woolf strived to illustrate the vain artificiality of Clarissa's life and her involvement in it. ... The thread of the Prime Minister throughout, the near fulfilling of Peter's prophecy concerning Clarissa's proposed marriage to Roger, and the characters of the doctors compared to the tragic plight of Septimus throw a critical light upon the so...

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She had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air" (Woolf, 1996 P.5.) ... Clarissa is analysed in terms of her life, personality, and thought process throughout the book by the author and other characters. ... Woolf strived to illustrate the vain artificiality of Clarissa's life and her involvement in it. ... The thread of the Prime Minister throughout, the near fulfilling of Peter's prophecy concerning Clarissa's proposed marriage to Roger, and the characters of the doctors compared to the tragic plight of Septimus throw a critical light upon the so...

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Susan Sontag, an American author and literary and social critic, examined this idea of worldviews coloring one's interpretation of events depicted in photographs in her article "Looking at War". In the piece, Sontag quotes Virginia Woolf asking, "whether when we look at the same photographs we feel the same things," with the answer given by Rashomon being a resounding "no" (3). ... Perception of events goes through a similar filter, and is even more susceptible to mutation. ...

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Thus we have a character that does not follow the expected path of other young women in similar life circumstances. ... Just one year before the publication of Sula, author Judith Viorst published a revised telling of the Cinderella story (Bressler 142). ... And if, as Virginia Woolf observed, a woman needs "a room of her own," Sula takes it a step further by taking control of an entire house (Bressler 145). ... In 1966, postmodern author Leonoard Cohen's book, Beautiful Losers, demands an end to "genital imperialism" (Cohen 34). ...

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Jane Austen is one of the most prominent women novelists in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Out of all her novels, Pride and Prejudice is by far most popular as well as the most critically acclaimed novel. This novel deals with the politics of love and marriage observed in the transition period when the Augustan phase ended and the Victorian Era began. Though, Austen lived during some ground-shaking historic events like the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars; she doesn't mention either of the historic events in her various novels. Her speciality has to do more with portrayi...

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Walker, Marshall, and Hurston; Women writing other Women Alice Walker, through her essay "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens", and Paule Marshall, in "Poets In The Kitchen", both write about the African-American women of the past and how these women have had an impact on their writing. Walke...

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The "Revolution" in Literature During the 19th/20th Centuries An influential English Modernist Virginia Woolf once said, "On or about December 1910, the world changed". This statement is regarding the drastic change in the culture of society with the beginning of exploration of the meaning of li...

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What makes this topic so interesting is both author's courage to write such a work in Victorian era and her great ability to create such remarkable characters which show different sides of the same issue. ... But several of the major figures of the Victorian novel are women; and the heroines they created began to throw off the victim's role that male authors had created, from Moll Flanders, Pamela, and Clarissa onwards. ...

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Popular authors like Dickens and Trollope churned out three-volume novels, engaged in numerous philanthropic projects, devoured twelve-course dinners, took twenty-mile walks, and produced a voluminous correspondence. ... Elaborating somewhat on these authors, I hope, gives the reader an insight to their wishes, their lives, and their beliefs, which were all central to their works, since they were all pivotal figures in this era, in regard to their contribution to the field of literature and otherwise. ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...

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