Self, writing and feminine transactions in Virginia Woolf's Orlando and Clarice Lispector’s The stream of life

Este artículo realiza un acercamiento a Orlando, de Virginia Woolf, y a Agua viva, de Clarice Lispector, como obras que logran escribir la multiplicidad, la fluidez y la contingencia del ser. Jugando con las convenciones de la biografía y la autobiografía respectivamente, estas obras encuentran los medios para presentar un sujeto multidimensional y para mostrar, en particular, cómo la dimensión relacional, forjada por un orden simbólico patriarcal, ha hecho de la mujer el “otro" del hombre; un “otro" que debe ser dominado. Se exploran en este artículo los conceptos de “economía masculina" y “economía femenina" teorizados por Hélène Cixous y se propone al lenguaje poético como un medio capaz de eludir los dictados del falocentrismo. Lo poético, que no puede ser nunca agotado por uno o varios sistemas de significación, brinda la posibilidad de ir más allá de las categorizaciones y de explorar la multiplicidad. Tanto Orlando como Agua viva muestran las estrategias y las esperanzas de personajes y escritoras que ven en el lenguaje poético, en la “escritura femenina" como la entiende Cixous, el potencial de desarticular la “economía masculina" y abrir un nuevo espacio para sujetos diversos, múltiples y complejos.

El mito de Aracné en La señora Dalloway de Virginia Woolf y en El hombre es un gran faisán en el mundo de Herta Müller

En este trabajo se analizan las representaciones de las mujeres en relación con el mito de Aracné, en estas dos obras literarias. El mito es considerado, no sólo en su estuctura (división en mitemas), sino, también, en la posibilidad que ofrece para pensar las estrategias discursivas de los personajes mujeres que "tejen", considerando el tejido en un profuso conjunto de sentidos.

Victoria Ocampo y Virginia Woolf : Escritura autobiográfica, encuentros y lecturas

Fil: Chikiar Bauer, Irene. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Victoria Ocampo y Virginia Woolf : Escritura autobiográfica, encuentros y lecturas

Fil: Chikiar Bauer, Irene. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

El mito de Aracné en La señora Dalloway de Virginia Woolf y en El hombre es un gran faisán en el mundo de Herta Müller

En este trabajo se analizan las representaciones de las mujeres en relación con el mito de Aracné, en estas dos obras literarias. El mito es considerado, no sólo en su estuctura (división en mitemas), sino, también, en la posibilidad que ofrece para pensar las estrategias discursivas de los personajes mujeres que "tejen", considerando el tejido en un profuso conjunto de sentidos.

Victoria Ocampo y Virginia Woolf : Escritura autobiográfica, encuentros y lecturas

Fil: Chikiar Bauer, Irene. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

El mito de Aracné en La señora Dalloway de Virginia Woolf y en El hombre es un gran faisán en el mundo de Herta Müller

En este trabajo se analizan las representaciones de las mujeres en relación con el mito de Aracné, en estas dos obras literarias. El mito es considerado, no sólo en su estuctura (división en mitemas), sino, también, en la posibilidad que ofrece para pensar las estrategias discursivas de los personajes mujeres que "tejen", considerando el tejido en un profuso conjunto de sentidos.

Illuminating Inner Life : A Comparison of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Arthur Schnitzler's Fräulein Else

In the early 20th century, authors increasingly experimented with literary techniques striving towards two common aims: to illumine the inner life of their protagonists and to diverge from conventional forms of literary representations of reality. This shared endeavour was sparked by changes in society: industrialisation, developments in psychology, and the gradual decay of empires, such as the Victorian (1837–1901) and the Austro-Hungarian (1867–1918). Those developments yielded a sense of uncertainty and disorientation, which led to a so-called “turn [inwards]” in the arts (Micale 2). In this context, this essay examines Virginia Woolf’s (1882–1941) development of her literary technique by comparing To the Lighthouse (1927), written in free indirect discourse, with Arthur Schnitzler’s (1862–1932) Fräulein Else (1924), written in interior monologue. Instead of applying Freud’s theories of consciousness, I will demonstrate how empiricist psychology informed and partly helped shape the two narrative techniques by referring to Ernst Mach’s (1838–1916) idea of the unstable self, and William James’ (1842–1910) concept of the stream of consciousness. Furthermore, I will show that there is a continuous progression of literary ideas from Schnitzler’s Viennese fin-de-siècle connected to impressionism, towards Woolf’s Bloomsbury aesthetics connected to Paul Cézanne’s post-impressionist logic of sensations. In addition to that, I address how the women’s movement, starting in the end of the 19th century, inspired Woolf and Schnitzler to utilise their techniques as a means of revealing women’s restricted position in society. Methodologically, I will analyse the two novels’ narrative techniques applying close reading and by that point out their differences and similarities in connection to the above-mentioned theories as well as the two author’s literary approaches. I argue that this comparison demonstrates that modernist literary techniques of representing interiority evolved from interior monologue towards free indirect discourse. This progression also implicates that modernism can be seen as a continuum reaching back to the fin-de-siècle and culminating in the 1920s. 

Women Creators: Artistry and Sacrifice in the Novels of Virginia Woolf

This thesis examines different facets of feminine artistry in Virginia Woolf's novels with the purpose of defining her conception of women artists and the role sacrifice plays in it. The project follows characters in "Mrs. Dalloway," "To the Lighthouse," and "Between the Acts" as they attempt to create art despite society's restrictions; it studies the suffering these women experience under regimented institutions and arbitrary gender roles. From Woolf’s earlier texts to her last, she embraces the uncertainty of identity, even as she portrays the artist’s sacrifice in the early-to-mid twentieth century, specifically as the creative female identity fights to adapt to male-dominated spaces. Through a close-reading approach coupled with biographical and historical research, this thesis concludes that although the narratives of Woolf's novels demand the woman artist sacrifice for the sake of pursuing creation, Woolf praises the attempt and considers it a crueler fate to live with unfulfilled potential.

Da cenografia como laboratório de todas as artes: José Manuel Castanheira

Este é o primeiro texto crítico sobre a obra cenográfica de José Manuel Castanheira até 2001.

A quarta dimensão do instante : "estudo comparativo da epifania nos contos de Virginia Wolf, Katherine Mansfield e Clarice Lispector

Dissertação de Doutoramento em Literatura Comparada

A melancolia na arte - da literatura para o cinema. Análise da transposição de Mrs. Dalloway, de V. Woolf, para o filme As Horas

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciências da Comunicação – Comunicação e Arte

Virginia Woolfista : lyhyesti ja innostuneesti

Kirjallisuusarvostelu

Waxing Ornamental : Reading a Poetics of Excess in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood

Ce mémoire de maîtrise porte sur une poétique de l’excès dans Orlando de Virginia Woolf et Nightwood de Djuna Barnes comme une stratégie combattant la tendance qu’a le modernisme à dévaloriser l’écriture des femmes comme étant trop ornementale. J’expose comment Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, et Wyndham Lewis tentent de récupérer la notion du détail afin d’affirmer une poétique masculin. Je fais appel également aux oeuvres de l’architecte autrichien Adolf Loos qui souligne sa dénonciation de l’ornement comme régressif. Dans Orlando et Nightwood, je considère l’excès associé au corps. Je soutiens que, dans ces textes, les corps dépassent les limites de la représentation moderniste. Je considère aussi comment Orlando et Nightwood font apparaître la narration comme ornement et écrivent excessivement l’histoire et le temps. Pour conclure, je propose une façon de lire l’excès afin de reconceptualiser le potentiel de production de la signification dans des textes modernistes.

Recognizing cultural concepts: Joyce, Woolf, Mann and Musil

The purpose of this thesis is to establish a direct relationship between literature and fields of knowledge such as science and technology, by focusing on some concepts that were fundamental for both science and the humanities at the beginning of the 20th century. The concepts are those of simultaneity, multiple points of view, map, relativity and acausality. In the spirit of several recent ideas, for example Katherine Hayles’ isomorphism notion, the dissertation shows how writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann and Robert Musil developed the mentioned concepts within their narratives. The working hypothesis is that those concepts were at a crossroad of human activities, and that those authors used them extensively within their narratives. It is further argued that those same concepts – as developed by Joyce in Ulysses, Woolf’s shorts stories and novels from the end of the 1910’s until the end of the1920’s, Mann’s Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain), and Musil’s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man Without Qualities) — are still fundamental for our conception of time and space today. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first two chapters will analyse the concepts of simultaneity and multiple points of view and their relationship to cartography as developed within English literature and culture. The next two chapters will address the concepts of relativity and acausality, as developed within German literature and culture.