This thesis offers an analysis of selected works by Virginia Woolf through the theoretical framework of technology of place. The term “technology”, meaning both a finished product and an ongoing production process, a mode of concealment and unconcealment in Martin Heidegger's sense, is used as part of this thesis's argument that place can be understood through constant negotiations of concrete place perceived through the senses, a concept based on the Heideggerian notion of “earth”, and abstract place perceived in the imagination, a concept based on the Heideggerian notion of “world”. The term “technology of place”, coined by Irvin C. Schick in The Erotic Margin: Sexuality and Spatiality in Alteritist Discourse (1999), is appropriated and re-interpreted as part of this thesis's adoption and adaptation of Woolf's notion of ideal biographical writing as an amalgamation of “granite” biographical facts and “rainbow” internal life. Woolf's granite and rainbow dichotomy is used as a foreground to this thesis's proposed theoretical framework, through which questions of space/place can be examined. My analysis of Flush (1933) demonstrates that place is a technology which can be taken at face value and, at the same time, appropriated to challenge the ideology of its construction. My analysis of Orlando (1928) demonstrates that Woolf's idea of utopia exemplifies the technological “coming together”, in Heidegger's term, of concrete social reality and abstract artistic fantasy. My analysis of The Years (1937) demonstrates that sense of place as well as sense of identity is ambivalent and constantly changing like the weather, reflecting place's Janus-faced function as both concealment and unconcealment. Lastly, my analysis of Woolf's selected essays and marginalia illustrates that writing can serve as a revolutionary “place-making” technology through which one can mentally “make room” for (re-)imagining the lives of “the obscure”, often placed in oblivion throughout the course of history.

This dissertation situates literary modernism in the context of a nascent form of globalization. Before it could be fully acknowledged global encroachment was, by virtue of its novelty, repeatedly experienced as a kind of shattering or disintegration. Through an examination of three modernist novels, I argue that a general modernist preoccupation with space both expresses and occludes anxieties over a globe which suddenly seemed to be too small and too undifferentiated. Building upon recent critical work that has begun to historicize modernist understandings of space, I address the as yet under-appreciated ways in which globalism and its discontents informed all of the locales that modernist fictions variously inhabited. For Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf, the responses to global change were as diverse as the spaces through which they were inflected. / I begin by identifying a modernist predilection for spatial metaphors. This rhetorical touchstone has, from New Criticism onward, been so sedimented within critical responses to the era that modernism's interest in global space has itself frequently been diminished. In my readings of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Joyce's Ulysses, and Woolf's To the Lighthouse, I argue that the signs of globalization are ubiquitous across modernism. As Conrad repeats and contests New Imperialist constructions of Africa as a vanishing space, that continent becomes the stage for his anxieties over a newly diminished globe. For Joyce, Dublin's conflicted status as both provincial capital and colonial metropolis makes that city the perfect site in which to worry over those recent world-wide developments. Finally, I argue that for Woolf, it is the domestic space which serves best to register and resist the ominous signs of global incursion. In conclusion, I suggest that modernism's anticipatory attention to globalization makes the putative break between that earlier era and postmodernity---itself often predicated upon spatial compression---all the more difficult to maintain.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Western Ontario, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-115).

A comparação entre as artes é um topois tão antigo em nossa cultura que remonta a aurora da civilização. Uma re-leitura atenta da História da Arte pode verificar que tão comum quanto as comparações eram as tentativas de se sistematizar uma escala hierárquica artística. Pretendemos nesta tese, propor uma revisão histórica que não apenas busque observar a forma como eram realizadas as correspondências interartísticas mas que vise também, com o olhar atento do presente, discutir a atualidade de teorias comumente empregadas ao longo da comparação entre as artes e, mais precisamente, as comparações entre Literatura e Pintura. A reflexão centrada na construção das imagens – no plano da narrativa tanto quanto no plano da pintura – assume singular importância para a pesquisa interartística, na medida em que funciona como ponto de convergência bem como de divergência entre aquelas duas artes. As discussões sobre a construção das imagens levam-nos, também, a uma outra problemática inerente aos estudos interartes, que é a leitura de imagens literárias e pictóricas. Ainda na esteira da revisão histórica, serão discutidas nesta tese as modificações ocorridas pela expressão Ut pictura poesis (Poesia é como pintura) , de Horácio, expressão esta que durante séculos designou os estudos comparativos entre Literatura e Pintura. A observação horaciana sobre a correspondência entre as artes permite-nos erigir uma discussão centrada na questão da representação e na passagem da mimesis à semiosis. O objetivo principal dessa tese é o de estabelecer e analisar a correspondência entre Literatura e Pintura no romance Passeio ao farol, de Virginia Woolf, para isso, procuraremos, inicialmente, demonstrar a importância da participação no Grupo de Bloomsbury – um dos grupos criativos mais importante do modernismo inglês - para a construção do projeto estético da escritora, considerando que o contato com pintores e críticos de arte proporcionou material importante para que Virginia Woolf promovesse a interlocução de seus romances com as Artes Plásticas. A análise mais pontual do romance Passeio ao farol estará calcada na relação que este mantém com as técnicas e métodos do Impressionismo e Pós-impressionismo pictórico. / The comparison of the arts is a topois so ancient in our culture that remounts to the dawn of the civilization. A carefull re-reading of the History of Art may verify that as common than the comparisons were the attempts to systematize an artistic hierarchical scale. We intend in this thesis to propose a historical review that does not only search to observe the form how were realized the interartistic correspondences but that also aims, with the attentive view of the present, to discuss the present of the theories commonly used along the comparison between the arts and, more precisely, the comparisons between Literature and Painting. The reflexion centrered in the constructions of images – in the plan of the narrative and in the plan of the painting – assumes singular importance to the interartistic research because it works as a point of convergence as well as divergence between those two arts. The discussions about the constructions of images take us, also, to another problematic concerning to the interarts studies, that is the reading of literary and pictorical images. Still in the path of the historical review, Will be discussed in this thesis the modifications occured by the expression Ut pictura poesis (Poetry is like painting), of Horacio, expression that centuries designed the comparative studies between Literature and Painting. The horacian observation about the correspondence between the arts allows us to erect a discussion centrered into the questiono f the representation and in the passage from mimesis to semiosis. The main objective of this thesis is to establish and analyze the correspondence between Literature and Painting in the novel To the lighthouse, of Virginia Woolf, for that pourpose, we intend, initialy, to demonstrate the importance of the participation in the Bloomsbury Group – one of the most creative groups of the english modernism – to the construction of the aesthetic Project of Virginia Woolf, considering that the contact with painters and art critics provided important material to Virginia Woolf to promote the interphrase of her novels with the Plastic Arts. The more ponctual analyze of To the lighthouse will be treated on the relation that this novel maintains with the thechniques and methods of the pictorical Impressionism and Posimpressionism.

ix, 242 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / Modernism's fragmented literary style has been called "an art of cities." My project challenges such conventional understandings by exposing a strain within modernism that expresses an awareness of a broader phenomenological world. In the work of E.M Forster, Virginia Woolf, and W.H. Auden, non-human presences are often registered through a character or speaker's innate sensory perception of their surroundings--what I call embodied modernism. Maurice Merleau-Ponty's ecophenomenology theorizes the intercorporeality of humans and the environment in ways that help elucidate this aspect of their work. Merleau-Ponty uses the phrase "flesh of the world" to explain the body as an open circuit embedded within the stimuli of larger environmental impulses. The uncertainty stirring within modernism's formal disruptions, the sensory impressions revealed by stream of consciousness techniques, as well as the robust fusion of latent emotions and unspoken associations that result in a memorable image or symbol invite ecophenomenological readings. Chapter I, "Passage From Pastoral: E.M. Forster," traces a developing phenomenological awareness that is only fully manifested through the formal innovation of Forster's modernist novel, A Passage to India , where landscape intervenes to direct the action of the plot. My second chapter, "The Phenomenological Whole: Virginia Woolf," analyzes how her use of personification provocatively disrupts anthropocentrism in "Kew Gardens" and Flush. Her conception of a more-than-human world also complicates elegiac readings of To the Lighthouse by positioning nature not as a sympathetic minor for humans, nor an antagonistic foil, but rather as a presence that intertwines with human life and renews embodied creativity. "Brute Being: W.H. Auden" shows how Auden's later poems create a lexicon of common cultural assumptions about human identity in a firmly ordered relation with the world but combat their own hermeneutics by slipping towards the opposite binary in any dialectic the poem presents, whether it be scientific order and organic chaos, nature and culture, or human observer and non-human subject. Analyzing the work of Forster, Woolf, and Auden from the embodied perspective of Merleau-Ponty's ecophenomenology both challenges conventional definitions of modernism and expands ecocritical theory. / Adviser: Louise Westling

BARROS, Francisco Rafael Silva. Orlando e a tradução da personagem para as telas. 2012. 125f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras, Fortaleza (CE), 2012. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-05-19T12:07:26Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_dis_frsbarros.pdf: 2691800 bytes, checksum: 06dba16e18916313999cad64e26c99d5 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-05-19T14:03:25Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_dis_frsbarros.pdf: 2691800 bytes, checksum: 06dba16e18916313999cad64e26c99d5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-19T14:03:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_dis_frsbarros.pdf: 2691800 bytes, checksum: 06dba16e18916313999cad64e26c99d5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / The following study analyses the translation of the novel/biography Orlando (1928), by Virginia Woolf, to its homonymous film adaptation in 1993, directed by Sally Potter. Orlando tells the story of an English nobleman who owns the gift of literary writing and lives for more than three hundred years, changing his sex, from male to female. The focus of our research is the translation of the main character, Orlando, from novel to film: we outlined some aspects of his/her personality to understand him/her actions throughout the novel/biography, and also considered some external aspects that complement or are part of his/her construction. Then, we submit the film character to the same process, to compare both. In order to do so, we started from a prior historical contextualization of the objects and their contexts of production. Our research is based on Itamar Even-Zohar’s polysystem theory (1978), the concept of translation as rewriting, by Andre Lefevere (2007), Antonio Candido’s study of the fictional character (2007), and Jacques Aumont’s studies about the aesthetics of cinema (1995). We do not intend to evaluate any of the objects (novel and movie), or to say that one is better than another. However, we aim to demonstrate what was the contribution of the character of the novel/biography to the construction of the film character, and to what extent the film character contributes and influences to the new readers of Woolf’s book. Primarily, we are aware that the construction of the character in the novel/biography is linked to two fundamental points: Vita Sackville-West, to whom the novel is dedicated, and the desire of freedom (intellectual and financial) to the writer, a relevant theme in Woolf’s speeches and writings of that decade. Sally Potter deals with her character’s immortality and freedom desire in a different way: her focus turns into implications of social and post-colonial issues, turning Orlando from an initial British identity to a more universal one. This research is sponsored by Fundação Cearense de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico – FUNCAP. / O presente trabalho analisa a tradução do romance/biografia Orlando (1928), de Virginia Woolf para as telas, no filme homônimo de 1993, da diretora Sally Potter. Orlando conta a história de um nobre inglês que cultiva o dom da escrita literária, vive por mais de trezentos anos e que sofre uma mudança de sexo, do masculino para o feminino. O foco da nossa pesquisa é a tradução da personagem principal, da literatura para o cinema: delineamos alguns traços de sua personalidade para compreendê-lo dentro do romance/biografia, como também consideramos alguns aspectos externos que o complementam ou fazem parte da sua construção; posteriormente, submetemos a personagem cinematográfica ao mesmo processo a fim de compararmos ambos. Para tal, partimos de uma prévia contextualização histórica dos objetos e de seus contextos de criação. Nossa pesquisa é fundamentada na teoria dos polissistemas de Itamar Even-Zohar (1978), no conceito de tradução como reescritura de André Lefevere (2007), no estudo da personagem de ficção de Antonio Candido (2007) e nos estudos de estética do cinema, de Jacques Aumont (1995). Não pretendemos com esta pesquisa lançar juízo de valor comparativo a nenhuma das obras, muito menos chegar a afirmar que uma é melhor em detrimento da outra. Todavia, almejamos demonstrar qual a contribuição da personagem do romance/biografia na construção da personagem cinematográfica e em que medida esta contribui e influencia na ampliação de novos leitores do livro de Woolf. A priori, compreendemos que a construção da personagem do romance/biografia está ligada a dois pontos fundamentais: Vita Sackville-West, a quem o romance é dedicado, e ao desejo de libertação (intelectual e financeira) da escritora, tema recorrente nas palestras e escritos de Woolf naquela década. Partimos da ideia de que Sally Potter trabalha a imortalidade e o desejo de liberdade de sua personagem de maneira diferente: seu foco se volta para o social e para implicações pós-coloniais, trazendo-a de uma personalidade de identidade britânica para uma mais universal. Esta pesquisa é financiada pela Fundação Cearense de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico – FUNCAP.

A comparação entre as artes é um topois tão antigo em nossa cultura que remonta a aurora da civilização. Uma re-leitura atenta da História da Arte pode verificar que tão comum quanto as comparações eram as tentativas de se sistematizar uma escala hierárquica artística. Pretendemos nesta tese, propor uma revisão histórica que não apenas busque observar a forma como eram realizadas as correspondências interartísticas mas que vise também, com o olhar atento do presente, discutir a atualidade de teorias comumente empregadas ao longo da comparação entre as artes e, mais precisamente, as comparações entre Literatura e Pintura. A reflexão centrada na construção das imagens – no plano da narrativa tanto quanto no plano da pintura – assume singular importância para a pesquisa interartística, na medida em que funciona como ponto de convergência bem como de divergência entre aquelas duas artes. As discussões sobre a construção das imagens levam-nos, também, a uma outra problemática inerente aos estudos interartes, que é a leitura de imagens literárias e pictóricas. Ainda na esteira da revisão histórica, serão discutidas nesta tese as modificações ocorridas pela expressão Ut pictura poesis (Poesia é como pintura) , de Horácio, expressão esta que durante séculos designou os estudos comparativos entre Literatura e Pintura. A observação horaciana sobre a correspondência entre as artes permite-nos erigir uma discussão centrada na questão da representação e na passagem da mimesis à semiosis. O objetivo principal dessa tese é o de estabelecer e analisar a correspondência entre Literatura e Pintura no romance Passeio ao farol, de Virginia Woolf, para isso, procuraremos, inicialmente, demonstrar a importância da participação no Grupo de Bloomsbury – um dos grupos criativos mais importante do modernismo inglês - para a construção do projeto estético da escritora, considerando que o contato com pintores e críticos de arte proporcionou material importante para que Virginia Woolf promovesse a interlocução de seus romances com as Artes Plásticas. A análise mais pontual do romance Passeio ao farol estará calcada na relação que este mantém com as técnicas e métodos do Impressionismo e Pós-impressionismo pictórico. / The comparison of the arts is a topois so ancient in our culture that remounts to the dawn of the civilization. A carefull re-reading of the History of Art may verify that as common than the comparisons were the attempts to systematize an artistic hierarchical scale. We intend in this thesis to propose a historical review that does not only search to observe the form how were realized the interartistic correspondences but that also aims, with the attentive view of the present, to discuss the present of the theories commonly used along the comparison between the arts and, more precisely, the comparisons between Literature and Painting. The reflexion centrered in the constructions of images – in the plan of the narrative and in the plan of the painting – assumes singular importance to the interartistic research because it works as a point of convergence as well as divergence between those two arts. The discussions about the constructions of images take us, also, to another problematic concerning to the interarts studies, that is the reading of literary and pictorical images. Still in the path of the historical review, Will be discussed in this thesis the modifications occured by the expression Ut pictura poesis (Poetry is like painting), of Horacio, expression that centuries designed the comparative studies between Literature and Painting. The horacian observation about the correspondence between the arts allows us to erect a discussion centrered into the questiono f the representation and in the passage from mimesis to semiosis. The main objective of this thesis is to establish and analyze the correspondence between Literature and Painting in the novel To the lighthouse, of Virginia Woolf, for that pourpose, we intend, initialy, to demonstrate the importance of the participation in the Bloomsbury Group – one of the most creative groups of the english modernism – to the construction of the aesthetic Project of Virginia Woolf, considering that the contact with painters and art critics provided important material to Virginia Woolf to promote the interphrase of her novels with the Plastic Arts. The more ponctual analyze of To the lighthouse will be treated on the relation that this novel maintains with the thechniques and methods of the pictorical Impressionism and Posimpressionism.

How did cinema influence the many writers who also constituted the first generation of moviegoers? In Spectatrices, I argue that early moviegoing was a rich imaginative reservoir for anglophone writers on both sides of the Atlantic. Coming to cinema from the vantage of the audience, I suggest that women of the 1920s found in moviegoing a practice of experimentation, aesthetic inquiry, and social critique. My project is focused on women writers not only as a means of reclaiming the femininized passivity of the audience, but because moviegoing offered novel opportunities for women to gather publicly. It was, for this reason, a profoundly political endeavor in the first decades of the 20th century. At the movies, writers such as Jessie Redmon Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, H.D., Dorothy Richardson, and Virginia Woolf developed concepts of temporary community, alternative desire, and discontinuous form that they then incorporated into their literary practice. Where most scholarship assessing cinema’s influence on literature is governed by the medium-specificity of film, my project emphasizes the public dimension of the movies, the fleeting and semi-anonymous intimacy of the moviegoing audience. In turning to moviegoing, Spectatrices opens new methods of comparison and cross-canonical reorganization, focusing on the weak social ties typified by moviegoing audiences, the libidinal permissiveness of fantasy and diva-worship, the worshipful rhetoric by which some writers transformed the theater into a church, and most significantly, the creation of new public formations for women across different axes of class, gender, and race. In this respect, cinema’s dubious universalism is both an invitation and a problem. Writers from vastly different regional, racial, linguistic, and class contexts were moviegoers, together and apart; but to say they had the same experience is obviously inaccurate. In this project, I draw from historical accounts of moviegoing practices in their specificity to highlight that whereas the mass-distributed moving image held the promise, even the premise, of shared experience, moviegoing was structured by difference. The transatlantic organization of the project is meant to engage and resist this would-be universality, charting cinema’s unprecedented global reach while describing differential scenes and modes of exhibition. Focusing on moviegoing not only permits but requires a new constellation of authors, one that includes English and American, Black and white, wealthy and working class writers alike. Across these axes of difference, women theorized the politics and possibilities of gathering, rethinking the audience as a vital and peculiar social formation.

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This dissertation examines sensation in twentieth-century narratives of London and argues that vulnerability is a constitutive experience of the post-imperial city. Sensations of vulnerability in London arise because of the built environment of the city: its status as an imperial center and a global capital create important intersections of local, national, and global concerns which render the city itself vulnerable. I chart the trajectory of vulnerability as an affective history of London that is documented in cultural texts ranging from fiction and film to political debates and legal materials. Since the sensational experiences of the present partly arise from the materials of the past embedded in the landscape, affective histories create new ways of understanding history as a spatial experience. The narrated sensations of the city make vulnerability legible as a persistent feature of twentieth-century London life. I begin with a modernist, imperial London, in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and in Parliamentary debates from the same year (1925). Ambivalence about London's dual status as a local site and as a national and international capital is a response to London's vulnerable position at the end of the Great War. Next, I turn to World War Two London and Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Day. I discuss intimacy as an important national feature in narratives of London during the crisis of this war. National narratives about intimacy constructed by Winston Churchill and heard on BBC radio respond directly to London's defensive vulnerability. My third chapter concerns Margaret Thatcher's 1980s London and the crucial role autonomy plays in constructing London as an invulnerable, international financial and civic capital. Alan Hollinghurst's The Swimming-Pool Library documents Londoners' attempts to make sense of their autonomy in a postimperial capital. My final chapter examines sensations of social and political belonging in contemporary London through reading Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things alongside legal documents about immigration. I contend that reading cultural texts affectively creates counter-histories of the city that accommodate a deeper range of experiences than do traditional histories and offers to literary studies a new way of understanding the relationship between official and unofficial histories. / text