Browsing by Subject "Virginia Woolf"
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An exploration of water imagery in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and The Waves
(BRAC University, 2018-08)Water imagery has been used in various texts from Greek times to modern times in literature and beyond. It has found significant space in the works of modernist artists ranging from writers to painters. One such modernist ... -
Looking at Virginia Woolf: women and society
(BRAC University, 2015-08)This paper looks at two essays, A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938), of Virginia Woolf to study the position of English women living in the late nineteenth to first half of the twentieth century. These ... -
Portrayal of the 20th century woman as seen through Edith and Clarissa in Anita Brookner’s Hotel du Lac and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
(Brac University, 2023-01)The late 19th and early 20th centuries in western society saw a fascinating change in the field of arts. Poets and authors shifted the attention to the newly emerging industrial world. This work will be an in-depth study ... -
The role of androgyny and performativity in the novels of Virginia Woolf: Orlando & Mrs. Dalloway
(BRAC University, 2016-08)The social roles of male and female are constituted through gender. The body always creates the values and meanings by the performance of social acts. Thus gender is not a fixed phenomenon. It is constantly changing, ... -
Sexuality of female royals in renaissance plays: Duchess of Malfi, Gertrude and Cleopatra
(BRAC University, 2017-04)The Renaissance period, even at the height of its progression, saw limited improvement in women’s lives regardless of their socio-economic status. While men were engaging themselves in the pursuit of knowledge, inventing ... -
Women and stream of consciousness in Virginia Woolf’s novel: “Mrs. Dalloway” and “To the Lighthouse”
(BRAC University, 2017-04)Virginia Woolf is best known for her novels, especially “Mrs. Dalloway” (1925) and “To the Lighthouse” (1927), Woolf also wrote pioneering essays on artistic theory, literary history, women’s writing, and the politics of ...
