Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The style of Fyodor Dostoyevsky with his depiction of a fluid mind in operation helped to influence Woolf's writings about a "discontinuous writing process", though Woolf objected to Dostoyevsky's obsession with "psychological extremity" and the "tumultuous flux of emotions" in his characters together with his right-wing, monarchist politics as ...
Virginia Woolf was known as a critic by her contemporaries and many scholars have attempted to analyse Woolf as a critic. In her essay, "Modern Fiction", she criticizes H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett and John Galsworthy and mentions and praises Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, William Henry Hudson, James Joyce and Anton Chekhov.
The book was to alternate between fictive narrative chapters and non-fiction essay chapters, demonstrating Woolf's views on war and women in both types of writing at once. This unfinished manuscript was published in 1977 as The Pargiters. When Woolf realised the idea of a "novel–essay" wasn't working, she separated the two parts.
This was long before Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce". [19] Henry James has also been suggested as a significant precursor, in a work as early as Portrait of a Lady (1881). [ 20 ] It has been suggested that he influenced later stream-of-consciousness writers, including Virginia Woolf , who not only read some of his novels but ...
Woolf's writing style crosses the boundaries of the past, present and future, emphasizing her idea of time as a constant flow, connected only by some force (or divinity) within each person. An evident contrast can be found between the constant passing of time—symbolized by Big Ben—and the seemingly random crossings of time-lines in Woolf's ...
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in September 1929. [1] The work is based on two lectures Woolf delivered in October 1928 at Newnham College and Girton College, women's colleges at the University of Cambridge.
Also, any notable features of the writer's style should be spelled out. Virginia Woolf's unique narrative voice, Thomas Pynchon's postmodernist tendencies, and Jane Austen's use of free indirect discourse are examples of the kind of stylistic elements that have been extensively discussed by scholars and merit mention on any page about these ...
The Hours, a 1998 novel by the American writer Michael Cunningham, is a tribute to Virginia Woolf's 1923 work Mrs Dalloway.Cunningham emulates elements of Woolf's writing style while revisiting some of her themes in different settings.