Virginia Woolf - Background Life & Career
VIRGINIA WOOLF;
BIOGRAPHY AND WORKS
An Album
Submitted for Final Exam
History of English Literature
2011
DHINI R. H_06185065
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT-ANDALAS UNIVERSITY
1/7/2011
VIRGINIA WOOLF – BIOGRAPHY AND WORKS
An Album
Submitted for Final Exam
History of English Literature
Compiled by:
DHINI REZKY HUSADA
06 185 065
ENGLISH DEPARTEMENT
FACULTY OF LETTERS
ANDALAS UNIVERSITY
PADANG
2011
I
INTRODUCTION
The movement of English literature is immortalized by the convention of periodical classification. The criteria for classification derive from fields such as the history of the language (Old and Middle English), national history (colonial period), politics and region (Elizabethan and Puritan age) and art (Renaissance and modernism). This classification then known as Periods of English Literature. In this modern era, it will be interesting to discuss about literature nowadays or we also named it as Twentieth-Century Literature. Talking about Twentieth-Century Literature is talking about a period of great artistic change that dominated by the impact of World War I (1914-18) and World War II (1939-45). In this period, the artistic concerns of modernism as a reaction to realist movements in the late nineteenth-century. While realism and naturalism focused on the truthful portrayal of reality, modernism discovered innovative narrative techniques, such as stream of consciousness, or structural forms such as collage and literary cubism. Product of modernism in literature is a new age of critical writing – much of the best of it by the creative writers themselves. One of the best known modernist in this era is Virginia Woolf. Furthermore, in this paper we will specifically discuss about Woolf’s life, career and work. How her misery life make she become one of influential modernist will be revealing here.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF – BIOGRAPHY AND WORKS
A. BIOGRAPHY
Virginia Woolf was an English writer, author and novelist
BIOGRAPHY AND WORKS
An Album
Submitted for Final Exam
History of English Literature
2011
DHINI R. H_06185065
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT-ANDALAS UNIVERSITY
1/7/2011
VIRGINIA WOOLF – BIOGRAPHY AND WORKS
An Album
Submitted for Final Exam
History of English Literature
Compiled by:
DHINI REZKY HUSADA
06 185 065
ENGLISH DEPARTEMENT
FACULTY OF LETTERS
ANDALAS UNIVERSITY
PADANG
2011
I
INTRODUCTION
The movement of English literature is immortalized by the convention of periodical classification. The criteria for classification derive from fields such as the history of the language (Old and Middle English), national history (colonial period), politics and region (Elizabethan and Puritan age) and art (Renaissance and modernism). This classification then known as Periods of English Literature. In this modern era, it will be interesting to discuss about literature nowadays or we also named it as Twentieth-Century Literature. Talking about Twentieth-Century Literature is talking about a period of great artistic change that dominated by the impact of World War I (1914-18) and World War II (1939-45). In this period, the artistic concerns of modernism as a reaction to realist movements in the late nineteenth-century. While realism and naturalism focused on the truthful portrayal of reality, modernism discovered innovative narrative techniques, such as stream of consciousness, or structural forms such as collage and literary cubism. Product of modernism in literature is a new age of critical writing – much of the best of it by the creative writers themselves. One of the best known modernist in this era is Virginia Woolf. Furthermore, in this paper we will specifically discuss about Woolf’s life, career and work. How her misery life make she become one of influential modernist will be revealing here.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF – BIOGRAPHY AND WORKS
A. BIOGRAPHY
Virginia Woolf was an English writer, author and novelist
References: * Carter, Roland, and John Mc. Rae. The History of English of Literature in English (second edition). London and New York: Routledge. 2001. * Klarer, Mario. An Introduction to Literary Studies (second edition). London and New York: Routledge. 1999, 2004. * “Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)” http://filer.case.edu/qxh4/virgiwoolfbioindex1.htm * “Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) - in full Adeline Virginia Woolf” http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/vwoolf.htm