Sökning: "Virginia woolf"

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  1. 1. Portraits of women in selected novels by Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster

    Författare :Kerstin Elert; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Forster; E.M.; Woolf; Virginia; Victorianism; Victorian women; female characters; Bloomsbury Group; woman in history; history of woman; woman in literature; mother-daughter relationship; Engelska romaner; historia; 1900-talet; Kvinnor i litteraturen;

    Sammanfattning : Female characters in novels by Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster are studied in their relationships as wives, mothers, daughters and prospective brides. The novels selected are those where the writers are concerned with families dominated by Victorian ideals. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Sakernas sammanhang : Om ting, människor och materiella relationer hos Henry Parland, James Joyce och Virginia Woolf

    Författare :Ellen Frödin; Elina Druker; Ingemar Haag; Anders E. Johansson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Henry Parland; James Joyce; Virginia Woolf; thing; object; artefact; nature; new materialism; material culture; the material turn; posthumanism; materiality; process philosophy; Gilbert Simondon; Elizabeth Grosz; Tim Ingold; modernism; 1920’s; modernity; Henry Parland; James Joyce; Virginia Woolf; ting; föremål; artefakt; natur; nymaterialism; materiell kultur; den materiella vändningen; posthumanism; materialitet; processfilosofi; Gilbert Simondon; Elizabeth Grosz; Tim Ingold; modernism; 1920-tal; modernitet; litteraturvetenskap; Literature;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the ways in which the writings of Henry Parland, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf works to foreground things and decenter humans. While the exploration of human inner life is a well established theme within Modernist literature, the period’s fascination with the material and non-human remains underexplored. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Intimacies : Ethics and Aesthetics in Virginia Woolf's Writing

    Författare :Elsa Högberg; Ashleigh Harris; Stuart Robertson; Jane Goldman; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Virginia Woolf; intimacy; interiority; non-violence; ethics; aesthetics; Judith Butler; Luce Irigaray; Julia Kristeva; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates Virginia Woolf’s configurations of intimacy in her experimental inter-war novels Jacob’s Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves. It focuses on the ethical and political positioning enabled by Woolf’s aesthetic delineation of moments of interiority in which distinctions between self and other are suspended. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Silent Modernism : Soundscapes and the Unsayable in Richardson, Joyce, and Woolf

    Författare :Annika Lindskog; Engelska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; silence; modernist fiction; realism; the unsayable; soundscapes; Dorothy Richardson; Virginia Woolf; James Joyce;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines silence in modernist fiction, explaining how it forms a central aspect of realism in the modernist novel. It is based on close readings of the form and function of silence in the works of Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Language Subject Ideology: The Politics of Representation in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Djuna Barnes's Nightwood and Gertrude Stein's Lucy Church Amiably

    Författare :Petra Ragnerstam; Genusvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literature criticism; General and comparative literature; politics; aesthetics; feminism; language philosophy; literary theory; critical theory; realism; postmodernism; modernism; 20th century novels; Gertrude Stein; Lucy Church Amiably; Djuna Barnes; Nightwood; Virginia Woolf; To the Lighthouse; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates the relation between aesthetics and politics by interpreting three experimental novels by Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein. By theorizing the relation between language, subject, voice and ideology it questions the autonomous subject as a ground for political action and criticality. LÄS MER