The New Dress Woolf‚ Virginia Published: 1927 Categorie(s): Fiction‚ Short Stories Source: http://gutenberg.net.au 1 About Woolf: Virginia Woolf (January 25‚ 1882 – March 28‚ 1941) was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period‚ Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925)‚ To the Lighthouse
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Modernism In the arts‚ a radical break with the past and concurrent search for new forms of expression. Modernism fostered a period of experimentation in the arts from the late 19th to the mid-20th century‚ particularly in the years following World War I. In an era characterized by industrialization‚ rapid social change‚ advances in science and the social sciences (e.g.‚Darwinism‚ Freudian theory)‚ Modernists felt a growing alienation incompatible with Victorian morality‚ optimism‚ and convention
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MODERNISM AND FEMINIST MOVEMENTS MODERNISM AT A GLANCE To aver that one’s art‚ literature‚ architecture and everything else that encompasses his cultural identity will not be let out of his grip‚ but instead will be moulded and rehashed to suit the changing landscape is what Modernism is all about. After the monstrosity of the First World War‚ followed by rapid industrialisation and technological developments becoming the carnal desires of mankind‚ Ezra Pound’s “Make it new” was a dire cry
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Family Stress in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury: The Role of the Mother Figure The Sound and the Fury‚ written by William Faulkner‚ and much like Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse‚ works hard to capture each respected character’s individualistic experience‚ reality‚ and growth by the use of stream of consciousness. Though these literary titans would never meet‚ both of their works published around the same time and experimented with the same
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Modernism Course: ISLAMIC WORLDVIEW Code: UNGS 2030 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and for all‚ we would like to express our deepest gratitude to Allah S.W.T. for giving us the strength and health to complete this assignment in time. Not to forget our beloved lecturer Bro Razak‚ who has the attitude and the substance of a genius: he continually and convincingly conveyed a spirit of adventure in regard to teaching us this subject. Without his guidance‚ this assignment would not have been possible
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the society that they live in. Through conforming we seem to make ourselves respectable‚ but does it mean that one must lose him/herself in order to gain the respect of society? I believe that this is the very struggle that presents itself in Virginia Woolf ’s Orlando. Orlando is a story about a young man who transcends into adulthood‚ finding his own path‚ by becoming a woman who lives through various periods of English history. In the beginning of the novel‚ which takes place near the end of
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The Presence of Baby Symbolism in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee is packed with baby imagery. Albee seems to add an image of a baby to almost every page of the play. The reason for this type of imagery is to symbolize babies‚ which has great importance throughout the course of the play because it connects with the characters and themes in the novel. The direct repetition of the word “baby” becomes very apparent at the beginning of the play and stays
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The historical subjugation of women has left a bitter legacy. To what extent do Woolf and Albee show this view? The subjugation between the genders throughout history has led to hostilities amongst them over time. A Room of One’s Own and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?‚ written by Virginia Woolf and Edward Albee respectively‚ both explore the contextually relevant gender roles and gender politics. Both texts demonstrate the statement to be true‚ however Woolf’s text explores how throughout history
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with talking vultures in "Their Eyes were Watching God) Minimalism Extreme restriction of a work’s contents to a bare minimum of necessary elements Minimalism Authors include Samuel Beckett‚ Ernest Hemingway‚ and the imagists Modernism A general term applied retrospectively to the wide range of experimental and avant-garde trends in the literature and other arts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries‚ mainly in Europe and North America. The movement’s literature is characterized
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Lighthouse of Alexandria The name comes from a lighthouse tower about 180 meters high‚ was built under the reign of Ptolemy II (283-246 BC) on the island of Pharos‚ opposite the port of Alexandria. Built by architect Sostratos of Cnidus was covered with marble. At the top was burning a fire at night that looked from a distance of 55 kilometers. Raised on a peninsula ahead of the Egyptian city is considered one of the greatest productions of ancient techniques. On a square base stood a slender
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