The contrast between past memory and present experience infuses the novel with a sense of contingency. ... Her husband is invited, without her, to lunch with Lady Bruton (who, Clarissa notes, gives the most amusing luncheons, which is very important for the woman from the high society.) ... One of the themes of the novel is the conflict between conventionality and unconventionality. ... Another theme of the novel is that the thoughts of individuals are connected in a way that transcends their separation. ... In the beginning of the novel Clarissa says, that she will get the flowers herself b...

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• Approx Pages: 5

Throughout the novel, Woolf steps away from traditional writing forms and explores the possibilities of creative prose. ... Word choice plays an incredibly important role in understanding Woolf's novel. ... Woolf uses unique metaphor constantly throughout the novel. ... Another important note is that the book is written entirely through soliloquy. ... The Waves is not the typical novel. ...

• Word Count: 614
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

As the story unfolds, they are going through different depressive states: Virginia Woolf is struggling to write her novel Mrs. Dalloway in 1923, as she recovers from depression; Laura Brown is a depressed and pregnant Los Angeles housewife who reads Woolf's novel in 1949, as she plans her husband's birthday party; and Clarissa Vaughn is a book editor in modern-day New York, who is planning a farewell party for her AIDS-inflicted former lover, Richard - a famous author who had nicknamed her Mrs. ... On her note to her husband she wrote, "I have a feeling I shall go mad. ... The novel ...

• Word Count: 481
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

As the story unfolds, they are going through different depressive states: Virginia Woolf is struggling to write her novel Mrs. Dalloway in 1923, as she recovers from depression; Laura Brown is a depressed and pregnant Los Angeles housewife who reads Woolf's novel in 1949, as she plans her husband's birthday party; and Clarissa Vaughn is a book editor in modern-day New York, who is planning a farewell party for her AIDS-inflicted former lover, Richard - a famous author who had nicknamed her Mrs. ... On her note to her husband she wrote, "I have a feeling I shall go mad. ... The novel ...

• Word Count: 481
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Many great novels emerged from the romantic period. ... A critical reader will note also that Forster uses Bloomsbury in A Room with a View (Forster 7). ... Again, the freedom to express passion is predominant in this novel as it would be in a romantic novel. ... A Room with a View is an excellent example of a romantic novel. ... "The Novels of E.M. ...

• Word Count: 1322
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Such is not the case in Woolf's novel, rather, change is unmotivated and unexplained in her biography. ... In her paper, Sharon Oudit further embellishes on the idea that Woolf's novel is in fact riddled with cinematic allusion thereby implicating that the author intended the novel for filmic adaptation and mocked her readers. ... It is important to note also that the film lasts a mere ninety-three minutes, which not only suggests numerous omissions from Woolf's dense text, but also that there must be some condensation and invention. ... Where the novel makes use of flashbacks, ...

• Word Count: 1793
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The King of the Novel and the Duchess of Dumb: Exploring Women's Exclusion from Writing Prof.: Donna Vittorio ENGL 205 In the interest of upholding a position of superiority, one might denigrate and ridicule others. ... Leapor notes the different perceptions held of these two people, as early on in the piece Mary's writing is compared to the "rhyme- of December, insinuating something that is disagreeable and lifeless. ... Quoted in Course Notes of ENGL 205*. ... Quoted in Course Notes of ENGL 2...

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After noting the extravagance of a luncheon at a men's college, Woolf depicts the inadequate dining at Fernham, a college for women, presenting a drab meal consisting mainly of aplain gravy soup.? ... In the July 1998 issue of Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources editors Linda Shult and Phyllis Weisbard give evidence of the denial of entire acceptance of women writers by showing that only eight women made the list of Modern Library'sone hundred best twentieth-century novels in English.? ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In The Hours (film) and the novel, something that Virginia Woolf, Laura Brown and Clarissa Vaughan have in common is their feeling of failure, depression and inadequacy. ... Virginia moves into her study and notes that it is in here that she feels safe. Virginia goes on to note that she must retain her weight of nine and a half stone, then, she believes that Leonard can be persuaded to move back to London. ... She notes that if she retains her weight, then there is a higher chance of her and Leonard moving back to London, which is what she wants. ... She notes that "because she is pregnan...

• Word Count: 3710
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School