YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Postmodernism
Essays 31 - 60
be possible to establish what is absolute truth, and that the only way in which she can proceed with her exploration into women an...
narrative practice. Woolfs essay "Modern Fiction" remains one of the main stays when describing writing using the modernist approa...
to resurrect and preserve (Gordon 4). Woolf, a manic-depressive, found herself constantly searching for approval...Battling with a...
"what she loved was this, here, now, in front of her, the fat lady in the cab . . . Did it matter that she must inevitably cease c...
is basically no place for an intellectual woman within the university environment. On a visit to a university, Woolf is told she i...
been quoted as saying, "Probably nothing we had as children was quite so important to us as our summers in Cornwall...to hear the ...
satisfying sexual or intimate relationship because of it. She essentially lived a life wherein she was torn between the desire to ...
nothing. She is not arrogantly assuming she is a great success, but rather sucking the listener/reader into a position where they ...
which you are now for the first time entering?"(Woolf). And, even in the modern era, most women still find this to be a certainty,...
that they tend to destroy themselves from within. This inner destruction of the community toward one another is also symbolic of ...
silent trout are all lit up hanging, trembling. So she saw them; she heard them; but whatever they said had also this quality, as ...
within the stringent boundaries of a male-dominated existence, a perpetual assertion that speaks volumes about the inherent fortit...
death in The Great War. Unlike classical protagonists, Jacob exists not in the center of the action but always on the periphery (...
distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...
In five pages gender and how it influences relationships are examined within the context of these literary works. Four sources ar...
on what his wife has written reveal details of his opinion regarding her. While granted Gilbert loved his wife, his attitude towar...
based on their age, "And that is being young" he thinks as he passes them (106). This begins a train of thoughts that lasts throu...
In five pages this paper analyzes the narrator's mind in this short story by Virginia Woolf. One source is cited in the bibliogra...
In fifteen pages this paper examines how the worth of Sigmund Freud's theories can be measured in these works by Virginia Woolf. ...
. . . for the perceived immorality of their personal lives" (McCoy & Harlan, 254). In addition to being extremely unconventional s...
In five pages this paper examines how male and female relationships are portrayed in a comparative analysis of these two literary ...
I had two cats that had already voiced their opinion on the matter. No Dogs allowed was the agreement. And, Im certain that they f...
why a person acts the way he or she does, how one attributes moods, feelings and emotions, the way in which one interacts with ano...
of the First World War. The first war of the modern era represents a vast social issue and a great change in all human affairs. ...
When she is speaking of the characters of Desdemona and Antigone, which is important to examine in order to compare to the charact...
do no wrong, which makes her introduction to the novel somewhat gooey and overwrought. However, she does point out that Woolf foll...
can do no wrong, which makes her introduction to the novel somewhat gooey and overwrought. However, she does point out that Woolf ...
the stereotypical feminine behavior of Woolfs era. In order to be a journalist, Woolf explains how she had to kill "the Angel" and...
need for all women, especially of color, to assert themselves and claim their individual identity. This narrative adds texture to...
and they only aggravate the gender issue by putting blinders on people so as to avoid the truth. A relevant phrase in liter...