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Virginia Woolf and Christa Woolf: Transitions in Epistemology

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1991
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In their essays and fiction, both Virginia Woolf and Christa Wolf address epistemological limitations inherent in patriarchy. In A Room of One's Own, Woolf investigates the gendered roles of author and character in Western literature and literary tradition. In Voraussetzungen einer Erzaehlung: Kassandra, Wolf analyzes the history and repercussions of Western patriarchal social structures in aesthetics and politics. Woolf's Between the Acts and Wolf's Nachdenken ueber Christa T. and Kassandra enact literary transitions past a prescriptive epistemology, which categorizes all experience according to gendered preconceptions of reality, to a unified view of aesthetic experience. Moreover, critical response to their writing reflects an historically grounded shift in interpretation. Woolf's contemporaries were interested in stylistic and technical innovations. Critics writing after 1970 have focused chiefly on the epistemological implications in the works of both authors.
Title: Virginia Woolf and Christa Woolf: Transitions in Epistemology.
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Name(s): Henderson, Cary
Hokenson, Jan W., Thesis advisor
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Date Created: 1991
Date Issued: 1991
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 115 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: In their essays and fiction, both Virginia Woolf and Christa Wolf address epistemological limitations inherent in patriarchy. In A Room of One's Own, Woolf investigates the gendered roles of author and character in Western literature and literary tradition. In Voraussetzungen einer Erzaehlung: Kassandra, Wolf analyzes the history and repercussions of Western patriarchal social structures in aesthetics and politics. Woolf's Between the Acts and Wolf's Nachdenken ueber Christa T. and Kassandra enact literary transitions past a prescriptive epistemology, which categorizes all experience according to gendered preconceptions of reality, to a unified view of aesthetic experience. Moreover, critical response to their writing reflects an historically grounded shift in interpretation. Woolf's contemporaries were interested in stylistic and technical innovations. Critics writing after 1970 have focused chiefly on the epistemological implications in the works of both authors.
Identifier: FA00000927 (IID)
Degree granted: Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1991.
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Subject(s): Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation
Wolf, Christa--Criticism and interpretation
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