Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades / Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciada en Lengua y Literatura Inglesa / [...] Basically, I am going to answer these questions on the light of one proposal that came up during the seminar sessions. I believe that through the different temporalities of the characters, the section “Time Passes” may acquire a different meaning in the novel. This section is the one which brings to light the differences among the times lived by the characters; therefore, I propose that the temporalities exposed in this section surpass the boundaries given by the structure of the novel. In this way, the time of Time Passes outstrips the whole novel; thus gaining an organic relevance, changing our perception of the form of the literary work. From my point of view, Time Passes overcomes the structural 6 level in order to gain relevance in giving the novel another way of interpreting it through the issue of time and temporality.

This thesis will suggest how Woolf scholarship's rich exploration of Virginia Woolf's representations of girls, women and femininities may be complemented by more systematic feminist study of constructs of masculinities, as they appear in her work. Elaborating the concept of the ‘private brother', the figure of a form of maleness that the daughters of educated men ‘have reason to respect', but that Three Guineas' narrator stipulates is ‘sunk' by men's exposure to society and replaced by the ‘monstrous male', my thesis will focus particularly on the representations of boys, men and masculinities in To the Lighthouse, Between the Acts and Woolf's biography Roger Fry, though I will additionally use material from Woolf's essays, diaries and letters, as well as from Mrs Dalloway, The Years and The Pargiters. The first section of my thesis will supplement feminist critiques of the education received by upper-middle-class English boys in Woolf's texts by exploring her representations of young male (inter)subjectivities in the process of being ‘sunk.' In the second section, I will complicate the narrative trajectories often indicated for these characters in Woolf criticism by proposing that Woolf understood this sinking process as always incomplete: I will argue that Woolf's adult male characters, even her patriarchs, professors and otherwise educated men, vacillate continually between stances that might be characterised as monstrous maleness and private brotherliness–in both ‘public' and intimate settings–as one of the preconditions of social existence.

Esta pesquisa investiga a construção do texto dramatúrgico Virginias, sobre a vida da escritora inglesa Virginia Woolf, que utilizou como metodologia de escrita o procedimento de apropriação, em que a obra e os diários pessoais da escritora foram fraturados pelo recorte e pela posterior colagem destes intertextos na nova criação. O trabalho articula os estudos sobre citação e apropriação de Antoine Compagnon, Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna, Kenneth Goldsmith e Marjorie Perloff, percebendo o procedimento como uma prática que tem a pós-modernidade como influência. A pesquisa utiliza como aportes teóricos sobre a condição pós-moderna, os autores Jean-François Lyotard e Linda Hutcheon e Cecília Salles sobre a gênese criativa. / This research investigates the construction of the play Virginias, about the life of English writer Virginia Woolf, which used as writing methodology the procedure of appropriation. This procedure consisted in fracturing the writer’s work and diaries by cutting them out and then pasting the pieces of intertext together in a new creation. The work articulates the studies about quotation and appropriation of Antoine Compagnon, Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna, Kenneth Goldsmith and Marjorie Perloff, and perceives the procedure as a practice that has postmodernity as influence. The research has as theoretical background about the postmodern condition the authors Jean-François Lyotard and Linda Hutcheon and Cecília Salles about creative genesis.

This dissertation is a study of the relationship between the modern Künstlerromane of Arnold Bennett, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf and issues of embodiment. Born of the field of aesthetics, the literary genre of Künstlerroman inherits its conflicts. The chief dilemma of the form is how an isolated artistic consciousness connects with the world through a creative act. Bennett, Joyce, and Woolf offer different and contradictory resolutions. By examining how each writer conceives the body, I discover in Woolf the idea of an ethical aesthetics that contravenes the assumed polarity between mind and body, between self and other, and between material and ideal. Written only a few years apart, Clayhanger (1910), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), and The Voyage Out (1915) tell a compelling story of the relationship between embodiment and a creative life.

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Esta pesquisa investiga a construção do texto dramatúrgico Virginias, sobre a vida da escritora inglesa Virginia Woolf, que utilizou como metodologia de escrita o procedimento de apropriação, em que a obra e os diários pessoais da escritora foram fraturados pelo recorte e pela posterior colagem destes intertextos na nova criação. O trabalho articula os estudos sobre citação e apropriação de Antoine Compagnon, Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna, Kenneth Goldsmith e Marjorie Perloff, percebendo o procedimento como uma prática que tem a pós-modernidade como influência. A pesquisa utiliza como aportes teóricos sobre a condição pós-moderna, os autores Jean-François Lyotard e Linda Hutcheon e Cecília Salles sobre a gênese criativa. / This research investigates the construction of the play Virginias, about the life of English writer Virginia Woolf, which used as writing methodology the procedure of appropriation. This procedure consisted in fracturing the writer’s work and diaries by cutting them out and then pasting the pieces of intertext together in a new creation. The work articulates the studies about quotation and appropriation of Antoine Compagnon, Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna, Kenneth Goldsmith and Marjorie Perloff, and perceives the procedure as a practice that has postmodernity as influence. The research has as theoretical background about the postmodern condition the authors Jean-François Lyotard and Linda Hutcheon and Cecília Salles about creative genesis.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-02-19Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:12:04Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 attie_jp_me_arafcl.pdf: 608579 bytes, checksum: 7eefd3a7f5fd191e2eaa2ee092be0188 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O objetivo da dissertação é expor a relação entre vida e morte em To the Lighthouse, da ficcionista Virginia Woolf. Essa estruturação conflituosa ganha destaque a partir dos efeitos provocados pelo trabalho com a voz narrativa, com o tempo e com a intertextualidade. A autora, pertencente ao Modernismo Inglês na sua fase inicial, enfatiza a importância daquilo que não é apreendido somente pelas aparências. Para isso, utiliza as técnicas do fluxo da consciência, especialmente o monólogo interior indireto, para registrar o temor à morte e a angústia de existir, tensões responsáveis pelas grandes revelações de To the Lighthouse, trazidas ao leitor por meio do trabalho com as lembranças e as reflexões. Portanto, o romance segue o percurso da memória das personagens refletido na ausência de linearidade temporal. Estratégia que enfatiza o emprego do tempo psicológico que, conjugado à voz narrativa, intensifica os efeitos do conflito, responsáveis pela revelação dos eventos interiores percebidos pelas personagens. O trabalho com a intertextualidade ajuda a sublinhar a recorrência à memória já que intertextos, de épocas e gêneros literários diferentes, compõem ecos da tradição literária, ampliando e enriquecendo sobremaneira o sentido do romance. Assim, a oposição central, vida e morte, é o foco desta dissertação, resistência cuidadosamente construída por Virginia Woolf e percebida como um amálgama vital pela personagem Lily Briscoe, pintora que realiza uma obra de arte, cujo término coincide com a chegada ao farol e o fim do romance. / The aim of this dissertation is to expose the relation between life and death in Virginia Woolf’s novel, To The Lighthouse. This conflicting structure is emphasized by the effects caused in the work with the use of the narrative voice, time and intertextuality. The writer, who belongs to the initial phase of the British Modernism, emphasizes the importance of learning things that are beyond the appearances. In this way, she uses the stream of consciousness’ techniques, especially the indirect interior monologue, to register the fear of death and anguish, and tensions, which are responsible for great revelations in To The Lighthouse. They are brought to the reader through the work with remembrances and reflections. Hence, the novel follows the characters’ memory, reflected in the lack of temporal linearity. Strategy that emphasizes the use of the psychological time, which added to the narrative voice, intensifies the conflicting effects, responsible for the revelation of the inner events realized by the characters. The intertextual work helps to underline the recurrence to memory, because the intertexts, from different epochs and genres, compose the echoes of literary tradition, enlarging and enriching exceedingly the novel’s meaning. Thus, the central opposition, life and death, is the focus of this dissertation, reluctance carefully constructed by Virginia Woolf and apprehended as a vital amalgam by the character Lily Briscoe, a painter who makes a work of art, whose ending coincides with the arrival at the lighthouse and the end of the novel.

I will particularly examine the work of Virginia Woolf, the 20th century novelist and critic, principally because her work exposes a very rich and extensive evidence of her awareness of the dichotomy women/men, putting special emphasis on female psychology. Her conviction was that an artist should never pervade the writing with judgements based upon sex distinctions or opinions full of resentment. Hence, the author’s inclination for the androgynous was used as a writing fashion, which in turn gave room to discussions on the topic of phallocentrism, taking subsequently the form of an embryonic feminist mode. Just as one wave does not really reflect the completeness and beauty of the sea, neither a single person reflects the splendour of mankind. I focus my attention on The Waves, since this novel has plenty of data that encourages an autonomous way of looking at humans, their gender, and the relations between them. The objective of this paper is to associate the author’s considerations about human distinctiveness and gender in The Waves. For this purpose I shall determine the feminist features presented in the novel as well as I shall establish the importance of characterisation and symbolism; these aspects communicate strong ideas concerning the fragmentation of reality with no hierarchic allusions related to gender, which as a result, comes to be a ground-braking conceptual reaction against phallocentrism.

Virginia Woolf in Mrs Dalloway, through Clarissa Dalloway’s and other parallel stories, presents us with the situation of Septimus Warren Smith, a war hero who suffers shell-shock and that due to his apparent madness is victim of constant threats from two physicians who want to put him away because of his mental crises. He, in an attempt to preserve his soul from the terrible embrace of human nature, decides to kill himself before he is arrested. Taking into account this information, the topic of this thesis will be the treatment of madness in Mrs Dalloway, understanding the figure of the mad person as a literary archetype which is repeated with some consistency in English Literature, from classical to contemporary texts. The main focus will be the development of the figure of Septimus as a visionary poet, a modernist figure analogous to William Blake who, with his visionary poetic/pictorial work, drew the paths to the following romantic company. A comparison will be drawn between the two poets taking into account the evolution of the visionary poet from its pre-romantic sphere to the modernist shadow of a mad person, showing that madness suffers transformations from the ancient Greece to modernist times. One of the sub-topics will be the conception of nature in contrast to human nature, and how they seem to be components of a dichotomy that cannot be dissolved. My intention is to work on madness as a literary archetype, along with an examination of the mad person within the context of a modernist novel where it is manifest in the figure of the visionary poet. I will try to see how this has changed from the Platonic perspective of divine madness to the segregation and punishment of the Classic Epoch, and finally to our modern(ist) sensibility. Tentatively, the social apprehension towards the mad person would affect its characterisation in Mrs Dalloway, in which a post-war fragmented society is presented.

Esta pesquisa investiga a construção do texto dramatúrgico Virginias, sobre a vida da escritora inglesa Virginia Woolf, que utilizou como metodologia de escrita o procedimento de apropriação, em que a obra e os diários pessoais da escritora foram fraturados pelo recorte e pela posterior colagem destes intertextos na nova criação. O trabalho articula os estudos sobre citação e apropriação de Antoine Compagnon, Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna, Kenneth Goldsmith e Marjorie Perloff, percebendo o procedimento como uma prática que tem a pós-modernidade como influência. A pesquisa utiliza como aportes teóricos sobre a condição pós-moderna, os autores Jean-François Lyotard e Linda Hutcheon e Cecília Salles sobre a gênese criativa. / This research investigates the construction of the play Virginias, about the life of English writer Virginia Woolf, which used as writing methodology the procedure of appropriation. This procedure consisted in fracturing the writer’s work and diaries by cutting them out and then pasting the pieces of intertext together in a new creation. The work articulates the studies about quotation and appropriation of Antoine Compagnon, Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna, Kenneth Goldsmith and Marjorie Perloff, and perceives the procedure as a practice that has postmodernity as influence. The research has as theoretical background about the postmodern condition the authors Jean-François Lyotard and Linda Hutcheon and Cecília Salles about creative genesis.