scholarly journals Women and Spirituality in 20th-Century Writing: an Exploration into the Fiction of Virginia Woolf, Michèle Roberts, Sara Maitland, Gail Godwin and Toni Morrison

E-rea ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire SORIN ◽  
Laurence LUX-STERRITT
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Gail Godwin

scholarly journals Housed Memories: Spatial and Temporal Portrayals in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 109-118
Author(s):  
Paulina Pająk
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Spatial Perception ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Similar Role ◽  
Temporal Aspects ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Politics Of Space

Neurocognitive research has confirmed that people perceive and remember the “rooms of their own” similarly to their own bodies. These psychological discoveries yield important new insights into the oeuvre of Virginia Woolf, an avid diarist, flâneuse and experimenter, preoccupied with gendered memory and space available to women in the early 20th century. While there exists an important and growing body of work on Woolf’s interest into women’s emancipation and politics of space, the gendered connection between spatial and temporal aspects of her works remains a little researched area, particularly in the context of neurocognitive theory of memory. This paper argues that in The Voyage Out the representations of the protagonist, Rachel Vinrace, are structured around the processes of autobiographical remembering and spatial perception, as her private rooms serve as loci of her memory and identity. It is then possible to interpret Rachel’s rooms as her spatial portraits, which perceived by other characters tell their inhabitant’s life story. A similar role could be attributed to the autobiographical memory, which preserves their owner’s temporal portrayals in particular moments of her life.

Bell, Vanessa (1879–1961)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace Brockington
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Bloomsbury Group ◽  
Experimental Art ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Hogarth Press

Vanessa Bell was a painter and decorative artist, and an innovator in interior design, who became central to the development of modernism in Britain in the early 20th century. As a member of the Bloomsbury Group, she was a key figure in the ground-breaking Omega Workshops, set up by the artist and critic Roger Fry in 1913. She worked across several media, including painting, print-making, photography and textiles; and she designed illustrations and dusk-jackets for the Hogarth Press, notably for books published by her sister, the writer Virginia Woolf. Her work was at its most radical between 1910 and 1920, when she was among the first artists in Britain to respond to "post-impressionism," a term coined by Fry to describe the new art from Europe. Her experimental art explored the limits of representation through a variety of modernist techniques, including bold use of color, emphatic outlines, flattened surfaces, and papier collé, while her subjects were often intimate and domestic.

scholarly journals Traumatic Narrative in Virginia Woolf’s Novel Mrs. Dalloway

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Jin Wang ◽  
Xiaoyu Xie
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Stream Of Consciousness ◽  
Spiritual Crisis ◽  
Representative Work

Virginia Woolf was one of the greatest literary artists in the 20th century, pioneering the contemporary English literature with the stream-of-consciousness technique. Mrs. Dalloway is her representative work that centers on the internal description of the characters while presenting social conditions of the postwar Britain. This paper examines traumatic narratives of the two protagonists, Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith, and explores implications of the war as the primordial cause of the spiritual crisis.  

scholarly journals “A King, Riding” by Klaas de Vries as an Artwork of the 20th Century

2014 ◽  
pp. 57-65
Author(s):  
Elizaveta V. Sanicheva
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Stream Of Consciousness ◽  
De Vries ◽  
The Waves

Considers the scenic oratorium “A King, Riding” by contemporary Dutch composer Klaas de Vries. It was composed after his own libretto based on the “Waves” novel by Virginia Woolf, which is a classic example of the stream of consciousness literature. The libretto and the opera work are studied as a part of rich and powerful mixture of different contemporary styles, manners, techniques and retrospections, such as impressionism, expressionism, neoclassicism. Its performance of 1996 in Brussels directed by Christoph Marthaler is also analysed.

RECORDING WORLD WARS

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 801-807
Author(s):  
miriam cooke
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
Wilfred Owen

World War I inspired countless artists, poets, novelists, and even soldiers across the world to record their unimaginable experiences and to reject the millennial lie: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori (it is sweet and appropriate to die for one's country). Early 20th-century European writers like Wilfred Owen, Virginia Woolf, Erich Maria Remarque, and Henri Barbusse have become household names. Less well known are the Arab civilians and soldier writers who struggled on the edges of the war's fronts.

Layered Rhythms: Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison

1993 ◽  
Vol 39 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 483-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara T. Christian
Keyword(s):  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Virginia Woolf
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