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VIRGINIA WOOLF ORLANDO, Appunti di Letteratura Inglese

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2022/2023

Caricato il 14/02/2023

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VIRGINA WOOLF!
she was lucky woman in sense that he suered a lot but her mother was in publishing house and
she was very intellectual and married a publisher and critic so she was in the publishing world,
his father had a library!
we know that she was sexually abused by her half brother, her younger brother died, her mother
died when she was 13, her father died of cancer!
she died in rich mount and drowned herself!
she wrote novels of dierent kinds, ex the waves (lyrical novel), room.. , orlando!
oit is full of humor, burlesque!
her husband was jewish so when hitler rose to power she was terrified, shocked by that!
balla (cane) —— futurism ——- dynamism, speed as an image of power, looking at the future, and
it is connected to the!
modernism is dierent from futurism, cause the first one doesn’t rifiuta il passato!
modernists are not interested in clock time (past, present, future) but they were interested by the
TEMPO INTERIORE (che influenzò sia Virginia woolf che joyce) !
the bound between past present future can be distrutto e viene incluso in tempo della mente
(tempo interiore) !
in wordworth there is a concept of time which maybe anticipated the epiphany of joyce (ex evelyn
che si ferma e pensa e si rend conto di ciò che è) che contrasta in quello che si put definire il deep
time (tempo di tutto il cosmo)!
—- in wordsworth abbiamo una cosa simile!
woolf lo difinisce MOMENT OF BEING, un singolo momento!
trias elliot parla del punto fermo del mondo che ruota!
madmoiselles d’Avignon —— picasso tried to represent a figure from dierent angles, perspective
(COHEXISTANCE OF DIFFERENT VISIONS OF REALITY, DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW)!
IN PICASSOS PAINTING WE SEE FRAGMENTS = !
slide 2 —- non c’è piu un centro, un punto di rif saldo, ma c’è frammentazione !
there is something POST DARWINIANO —- a search to explain making place in the modern world !
slide 3 —- storia (piglia dalla slide e bona)!
-virginia woolf also wrote a essay on the cinema)!
-1928 women can vote aged 21 and over (we find it at the end of orlando)!
NEW WOMAN WHO RIDES A BICICLETTA!
donna che va contro gli stereoptipi di genere al contrario della angel of the house!
the first “new woman” protagonist is Tyndall in the story of an african farm / she became an
idìcon at the time and looked forward tot the feminist movement!
slide 5 — LIES = oppositions / a woman whole express herself whose !
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VIRGINA WOOLF

she was lucky woman in sense that he suffered a lot but her mother was in publishing house and she was very intellectual and married a publisher and critic so she was in the publishing world, his father had a library we know that she was sexually abused by her half brother, her younger brother died, her mother died when she was 13, her father died of cancer she died in rich mount and drowned herself she wrote novels of different kinds, ex the waves (lyrical novel), room.. , orlando oit is full of humor, burlesque her husband was jewish so when hitler rose to power she was terrified, shocked by that balla (cane) —— futurism ——- dynamism, speed as an image of power, looking at the future, and it is connected to the modernism is different from futurism, cause the first one doesn’t rifiuta il passato modernists are not interested in clock time (past, present, future) but they were interested by the TEMPO INTERIORE (che influenzò sia Virginia woolf che joyce) the bound between past present future can be distrutto e viene incluso in tempo della mente (tempo interiore) in wordworth there is a concept of time which maybe anticipated the epiphany of joyce (ex evelyn che si ferma e pensa e si rend conto di ciò che è) che contrasta in quello che si put definire il deep time (tempo di tutto il cosmo) —- in wordsworth abbiamo una cosa simile woolf lo difinisce MOMENT OF BEING, un singolo momento trias elliot parla del punto fermo del mondo che ruota madmoiselles d’Avignon —— picasso tried to represent a figure from different angles, perspective (COHEXISTANCE OF DIFFERENT VISIONS OF REALITY, DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW) IN PICASSOS PAINTING WE SEE FRAGMENTS = slide 2 —- non c’è piu un centro, un punto di rif saldo, ma c’è frammentazione there is something POST DARWINIANO —- a search to explain making place in the modern world slide 3 —- storia (piglia dalla slide e bona)

- virginia woolf also wrote a essay on the cinema)

- 1928 women can vote aged 21 and over (we find it at the end of orlando)

NEW WOMAN WHO RIDES A BICICLETTA

donna che va contro gli stereoptipi di genere al contrario della angel of the house the first “new woman” protagonist is Tyndall in the story of an african farm / she became an idìcon at the time and looked forward tot the feminist movement slide 5 — LIES = oppositions / a woman whole express herself whose

WOOLF, A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN

this is an essay which comes from 2 letters she gave in cambridge to female students about women and fictions una stanza tutta per se —- una stanza in cui una woman put express herself A SPACE IN WHICH A WOMAN MUST FEEL FREE TO EXPRESS HESELF WITHOUT BEING INFLUENCED BY THE GENDER RULES AND WITHOUT BEING JUDGED, AND WHERE SHE CAN DEDICATE HERSELF TO WRITING she speaks about a fallen woman to be independent / free and also economic independent cessare di vedere l’uomo come il nemico della donna è un aspetto da riprendere con angela carter / uomo non come nemico ma come una cooperazione, un’armonia I NEED NO HATE NO MAN, —— IDEA OF BING INDIPENDENT, AND BETTER RELATIONSHIP WITH MEN (HUSBAND, FATHER) —- (relevant also in angela carter)

- WOMAN IS ALWAYS PRSENT IN LETTERATURE (object) but what about her subjectivity? (slide

this is why she invent the figure of judith shakespeare to show that often women live in the shadow and that women that are artistic remain in their shadows cause they’re oscurate da loro THE ANDROGYNOUS MIND (centre in orlando) a mind which is both masculine and feminine / it is absurd to define a woman or a man based on their biological sex (connected to anima and animus di jung and la belle dame sans merci di keats) UNITY OF THE MIND ____ both components are in us / feminine side = more emotional - masculine side = intelligence slide 8 key terms collected to angela carted = harmony, ORLANDOOOOOOO prorompe of the androgynous mind story peculiar (also fantastic) —— the story spans over 300 years but orlando at the end of the novel is 36 yo

- elizabethean and jacobean ages = he noble boy who loves poetry and adventure (he shows

inclinations which at the time were associated to women) he loved to rad also and to be alone 1608 —— important moment in the plot —— THE GREAT FROST in london but not only, the whole england - there is immobility everywhere / but we have also a CARNIVAL PARTY = organized during the great frost what happens? invitati change their identity - there is a contrast between the immobility of the frost and the carnival which represent fluidity, change. here he meet sasha and falls in love with sasha, a man who is gender fluid like orlando ( but sasha leaves at some point) GREAT FROST - represent also the rigidity of gender codes in london restoration period = he starsìts to write his masterpiece THE OAK TREE one he becomes ambassador he is sent to costantinople / here he goes to sleep for a week and when he wakes up he sees a metamorphosis in the mirror (HES BECOMEN A WOMAN) augustan age = orlando meets addison, dryad and pope