creative masterpieces but also crucial articulations of revolutionary developments in critical thought. In this volume Deborah Parsons traces the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce‚ Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf. Considering cultural‚ social and personal influences upon the three writers and connections between their theories‚ Parsons pays particular attention to their work on: • • • • forms of realism the representation of character and consciousness
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Jett McAlister Narrative POV Seminar 2 March 2004 Atonement and the Failure of the General Point of View Atonement’s chief narrative feature is McEwan’s use of an embedded author—Briony Tallis—whose text is nearly coterminous with the novel itself. This technique is of course not a new one: Sterne’s Sentimental Journey and MacKenzie’s Man of Feeling are both framed as the written accounts of their protagonists. McEwan’s trick in Atonement‚ though‚ is presumably that we are to be ignorant
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feminist Virginia Woolf used a lot in her works. This “stream” is very confusing‚ because it describes the situation by every little thought of the persona who in this case is very distractive and unfocused as a result of ingesting drugs - she changes her focus by the second. Ellie is a young student living in London. She has a lot of pressure on her shoulders because her parents have made her take a course at the UCL which she is about to flunk if she does not hand in an essay about Virginia Woolf
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Both Anne Dillard and Virginia Woolf describe the death of a moth in their respective essays to achieve dissimilar ends. Dillard hopes to capture the self sacrificial path of a writer; while Woolf simply wants to draw attention to the strength of an individual’s drive and the even stronger hand of death. Woolf’s description is more effective‚ for she is able to clearly make her point through the description; whereas Dillard’s description and argument are separate‚ and she must connect
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of rememory has become a formidable critical tool for understanding how trauma continues to haunt literary and historical characters‚ by allowing their thoughts and experiences to transcend the boundaries of time. This concept will be applied to Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway‚ to uncover how the aftermath and trauma of World War I affect and live through the character of Septimus. Though Morrison’s novel and thus the concept of rememory came after “Mrs. Dalloway‚” the experiences of Woolf’s
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through John Morrisons ‘The compound’ where a sense of belonging creates purpose and direction within a man once in a state of nothingness. Finding beauty and meaning within the city can allow one to realise themselves with that place‚ exemplified in Virginia Woolf’s ‘Street haunting’. However the city does not always provide a platform for self worth and purpose‚ but rather alienation and hostility‚ as explored by William Blake’s bleak depiction of London. The limitless boundaries and mystifying nature
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and was prescribed ‘rest cure’ – just as Septimus is; Woolf is often described as a ‘mad genius’ as she was declared mentally ill at an early stage in her life -- this intense and troubling lifestyle of erratic nervous breakdowns coupled with her substantial involvement in the Bloomsbury group in ‘the early manifestations of the Freudian psychiatry’ led to a close scrutiny and new way of looking at the issue of madness. The novel‚ in Virginias own words‚ attempts to present ‘the world seen by the
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Julia Kristeva’s quotation from Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia provides an interesting piece of observation in regards to the rampant depression apparent throughout literature. Kristeva points out that melancholy and depression can send writers into an “abyss of sorrow‚” (Kristeva). However‚ she believes that so long as a writer avoids collapsing into the “noncomunicable grief‚” (Kristeva)‚ extraordinarily powerful pieces of literature can rise from ashes of depression. The melancholy experienced
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In Mrs. Dalloway‚ the modernist writer Virginia Woolf undermines the usual conventions of prior prose fiction by adopting an innovative approach to time. She contrasts the objective external time and subjective internal time that structure the plot of the one-day novel. In fact‚ the story takes place on a single day in June and‚ by the use of two important techniques‚ namely the stream of consciousness mode of narration and the interior mono-logue‚ the reader is constantly flowing from the present
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AP Language & Composition Art & Society “It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country‚ i.e.‚ against the environment in which God hath placed him‚ as it is to assume that his country is against the artist” (H.L. Mencken). It is safe to say that Mencken’s assumption on the artist against the environment is spot on. Artists are different than everyone else. Artists understand other artists. Normal people do not seem to understand artists. I consider myself
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