This essay is a close reading of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: a Biography that focuses on representation of gender in the novel and the possible response it elicits in the reader. The essay argues that the implied reader of Orlando - as manifested in the novel - is a feminist one, as well as it explores the possibility of this implied feminist reader being a female. The reasons as to why this could be are extensively examined by analyzing the main character Orlando as he metamorphoses from an English nobleman into a grown woman. To support the thesis, the essay looks both into reader response criticism and feminist criticism to clarify what an implied reader actually is. The similarities between Orlando and “A Room of One’s Own” are also touched upon as these suggest that the implied reader is a feminist. The essay then takes a closer look at the narrator of the novel and what this narrator suggests about the identity of the implied reader of the novel. In addition to this it is also concluded that s/he controls the reader’s perception of Orlando’s gender in the novel, and that this also echoes the ideals presented in “A Room of One’s Own”. The essay concludes that the implied reader of Orlando indeed is a feminist, but not necessarily a female one.

Thesis--New York University, 1912 / Bibliography: p. 126-130 Also available in digital form on the Internet Archive Web site.

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 1991. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 325-336).

Thesis (M.A.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of Geography, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis looks at the Virginia Woolf's critique of the previous portrayal of characters in fiction and her adaptation of a new narrative style in order to convey a modern realism. Two of her novels include an intrusive narrator that serves to argue for the creation of a new form of representation of the character in the novel. Through the creation of distance and the parody of the genre, Woolf provides the reader a picture of their relationship with the character in the novel.

Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Lengua y Literatura Hispánica mención Literatura. / El Renacimiento Europeo de los siglos XV y XVI se plantea como un vaso comunicante entre dos épocas: culmina los profundos cambios en la percepción y definición del mundo iniciados en el medioevo tardío, para así inaugurar gran parte de las preocupaciones de la modernidad, al punto de llevar a algunos autores a hablar de “primera modernidad” en tal período. Entre los cambios producidos en aquél se encuentra la revaloración del sujeto como entidad individual y libre inserta en la vita activa. Con ello, el trabajo de letrados laicos en el período aumentó notablemente, producto de las nuevas formas de instrucción pero sobre todo por la revaloración de las fuentes latinas. A partir de ello, los autores incorporaron nuevos modos de expresión y releyeron los tópicos latinos según las necesidades de los nuevos tiempos, generando un nuevo imaginario. Nuestro Seminario tomó los conceptos de Locura y Carnaval como acercamiento a esta nueva concepción, pues son precisamente aquéllos los que instauran un campo de acción para las innovaciones formales y conceptuales que propiciaron este cambio en la actitud del hombre del Renacimiento en sus expresiones culturales.

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