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"The Voyage Out": A search for interpersonal relatedness and self-definition
Title
"The Voyage Out": A search for interpersonal relatedness and self-definition.
Creator
Busto, Jennifer Starr., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
Abstract/Description
In her first novel, The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf captures the complexity of human relationships and the difficulty of establishing meaningful connections with people. Her main character, Rachel Vinrace, struggles with these issues as she embarks on a discovery of self. Rachel's journey begins with a disrupted childhood, moves through her battle to regain a sense of belonging, and ends with her eventual withdrawal from the human struggle, thereby recreating herself and transcending the...
Show moreIn her first novel, The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf captures the complexity of human relationships and the difficulty of establishing meaningful connections with people. Her main character, Rachel Vinrace, struggles with these issues as she embarks on a discovery of self. Rachel's journey begins with a disrupted childhood, moves through her battle to regain a sense of belonging, and ends with her eventual withdrawal from the human struggle, thereby recreating herself and transcending the limitations of society and relationships. Rachel's actions throughout the novel mirror an oscillation between the fundamental concerns of personality development. Her behavior reflects the typical ego defense mechanisms employed by people preoccupied by interpersonal relatedness followed by an exaggerated emphasis on self-definition.
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Date Issued
1998
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15559
Subject Headings
Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941--Voyage out, Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation
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Re-constructing the past: women, time, and inanimate objects in Virginia Woolf's the years and Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca
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Re-constructing the past: women, time, and inanimate objects in Virginia Woolf's the years and Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.
Creator
Derisi, Stephanie, Berlatsky, Eric L., Low, Jennifer A., Hagood, Taylor, Graduate College
Date Issued
2011-04-08
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164523
Subject Headings
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Years, Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989, Women in literature
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Virginia Woolf and Christa Woolf: Transitions in Epistemology
Title
Virginia Woolf and Christa Woolf: Transitions in Epistemology.
Creator
Henderson, Cary, Hokenson, Jan W., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
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...
Show moreIn 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.
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Date Issued
1991
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000927
Subject Headings
Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation, Wolf, Christa--Criticism and interpretation
Format
Document (PDF)
MRS. RAMSAY'S LEGACY IN VIRGINIA WOOLF'S "TO THE LIGHTHOUSE"
Title
MRS. RAMSAY'S LEGACY IN VIRGINIA WOOLF'S "TO THE LIGHTHOUSE".
Creator
YELBASI, DUYGU., Florida Atlantic University, Greer, Allen W.
Abstract/Description
This study briefly examines the legal and social position of women in the nineteenth century, with special attention to Virginia Woolf's own family background and to the development of her novels, culminating in To the Lighthouse. A survey of the critics' views of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay precedes a study of the ways in which Virginia Woolf dramatizes that marriage in itself and its effect on other family members as well as on the family's circle of friends. Finally, it addresses...
Show moreThis study briefly examines the legal and social position of women in the nineteenth century, with special attention to Virginia Woolf's own family background and to the development of her novels, culminating in To the Lighthouse. A survey of the critics' views of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay precedes a study of the ways in which Virginia Woolf dramatizes that marriage in itself and its effect on other family members as well as on the family's circle of friends. Finally, it addresses the relationship of Mrs. Ramsay to Minta and to the artist Lily Briscoe and the legacy of her death in women's growing awareness of their new role with the passing of the patriarchal family pattern.
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Date Issued
1986
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14304
Subject Headings
Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941--To the lighthouse, Women--Social conditions
Format
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search for order in the face of impermanence
Title
The search for order in the face of impermanence: movement and meaning in Woolf.
Creator
Hall, Maria., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description
The two main characters of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse interpret and find meaning in the world around them in two different ways. Mrs. Ramsey seeks a form of meaning that exists independent of her in the world. Lily, on the other hand, won't rely on meaning that is predetermined or inherent in the world outside of her own perception of it. Both of these positions are problematic because neither one of them actually allows the characters to establish a way in which to understand their...
Show moreThe two main characters of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse interpret and find meaning in the world around them in two different ways. Mrs. Ramsey seeks a form of meaning that exists independent of her in the world. Lily, on the other hand, won't rely on meaning that is predetermined or inherent in the world outside of her own perception of it. Both of these positions are problematic because neither one of them actually allows the characters to establish a way in which to understand their world. It is only when Lily gains insight from Mrs. Ramsey's position that she is finally able to form a new, third strategy, represented in the act of painting, which allows her to create a kind of meaning that succeeds where her and Mrs. Ramsey's original strategies had failed. In the completion of her work of art she has both represented her vision and established her own way of relating to and understanding her world.
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Date Issued
2007
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/41005
Subject Headings
Criticism and interpretation, Impressionism in literature, Modernism (Literature)
Format
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(In)visible dimensions of identity in Virginia Woolf
Title
(In)visible dimensions of identity in Virginia Woolf.
Creator
Hunter, Leeann D., Florida Atlantic University, Sheehan, Thomas
Abstract/Description
This study of three novels by Virginia Woolf---Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves---examines the various narrative techniques Woolf employs to construct her concept of character in the modernist novel, and also considers her related assumptions about the multiple dimensions of identity. As Woolf questions whether life and reality are "very solid or very shifting," she generates a series of framing devices---such as mirrors, portraits, dinner parties, and narratives---that...
Show moreThis study of three novels by Virginia Woolf---Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves---examines the various narrative techniques Woolf employs to construct her concept of character in the modernist novel, and also considers her related assumptions about the multiple dimensions of identity. As Woolf questions whether life and reality are "very solid or very shifting," she generates a series of framing devices---such as mirrors, portraits, dinner parties, and narratives---that acknowledge a solid, visible, and structured reality within the frame amidst a shifting, invisible, and unstructured reality outside it. Woolf's attention to the operation of the frame as simultaneously facing inward and outward enables her to umbrella this contradistinction of elements in her expression of identity. This analysis of Woolf's orchestration of multiple framed perspectives and images evidences her visionary contributions to studies in narrative and human character.
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Date Issued
2004
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13165
Subject Headings
Modernism (Literature), Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941--Philosophy, Knowledge, Theory of, in literature, English literature--20th century--History and criticism, Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation
Format
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Housing identity
Title
Housing identity: re-constructing feminine spaces through memory in Virginia Woolf's The Years and Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca.
Creator
Derisi, Stephanie, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
This thesis represents a study of The Years by Virginia Woolf and Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Both novels attempt to redefine the role of women in patriarchal society during the 1930s. The domestic role women had to fill within a masculine household constrained their ability to form an independent "self," apart from fathers and husbands. I argue that these novels articulate the possibility for women to access an independent self by examining the meaning behind domestic objects in and of the...
Show moreThis thesis represents a study of The Years by Virginia Woolf and Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Both novels attempt to redefine the role of women in patriarchal society during the 1930s. The domestic role women had to fill within a masculine household constrained their ability to form an independent "self," apart from fathers and husbands. I argue that these novels articulate the possibility for women to access an independent self by examining the meaning behind domestic objects in and of the house. Lucy Irigaray asserts that women were, and still are, associated with being valued as a desirable "commodity". Since women have no choice but to work within the symbolic order and are already labeled as "object," women writers have manipulated the system by examining the subject/object dichotomy. The relationship women have with inanimate, and particularly domestic, objects shows how time (the past and the future) manipulates freedom in the present moment. Woolf's reflection on how "moments of being" function as gateways to a heightened sense of awareness is prevalent in her last published novel, The Years. I invoke Friedrich Nietzsche to consider notions of how an antiquated past hinders identity in du Maurier's Rebecca. In the literary texts of Woolf and du Maurier, women have a unique relationship with material objects in relationship to subjectivity. By examining the spatial constructs of the home, women are able to construct themselves as free "subjects" in a male dominated world.
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Date Issued
2012
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3342046
Subject Headings
Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Feminism in literature, Identity (Psychology) in literature
Format
Document (PDF)
The carnivalesque and grotesque realism in modernist literature: the final novels of Ronald Firbank and Virginia Woolf
Title
The carnivalesque and grotesque realism in modernist literature: the final novels of Ronald Firbank and Virginia Woolf.
Creator
Case, Marlene Katherine, Adams, Don, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli by Ronald Firbank and Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf both liberate the text from the expected form to engage emotional awareness and instigate reform of societal standards. Employing Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of the carnivalesque and grotesque realism as a means to create this perspective is unconventional; nevertheless, Firbank, predominantly misunderstood, and Woolf, more regarded but largely misinterpreted, both address sexuality and...
Show moreConcerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli by Ronald Firbank and Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf both liberate the text from the expected form to engage emotional awareness and instigate reform of societal standards. Employing Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of the carnivalesque and grotesque realism as a means to create this perspective is unconventional; nevertheless, Firbank, predominantly misunderstood, and Woolf, more regarded but largely misinterpreted, both address sexuality and religion to parody what they believe to be the retrogression of civilization by narrating christenings, pageants, and other forms of carnival. Both novels forefront nonconformity, and the conspicuous influence of debasement is identified as a form of salient renewal. Christopher Ames, Melba-Cuddy Keane, and Alice Fox have already expressed remarkable insight into Woolf; unfortunately not a single scholar has approached Firbank’s text in this manner, and this essay discusses the value of both authors in the aspect of Bakhktin’s theories.
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Date Issued
2015
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004355, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004355
Subject Headings
Carnival in literature, Eccentrics in literature, Firbank, Ronald -- 1886-1926 -- Concerning the eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli -- Criticism and interpretation, Grotesque in literature, Postmodernism (Literature), Woolf, Virginia -- 1882-1941 -- Between the acts -- Criticism and interpretation
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