Virginia Woolf: A Modernist Author and Her Literary Journey, Sintesi del corso di Inglese

Scarica Virginia Woolf: A Modernist Author and Her Literary Journey e più Sintesi del corso in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Virginia Woolf is considered one of the most important modernist authors and also a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. She was born in London in a intellectual household in 1882. Even though two of her brothers were educated at Cambridge, she and her sisters were educated at home, where they had access to their father’s library. Their education mainly focused on the field of English literature, more specifically of the Victorian era. Since Woolf spent most of her summers at St Ives, in Cornwall, which is a seaside location which lies on the coast of the Celtic Sea, the sea played an important role in her works as a symbol. In 1895, she had to cope with the loss of her mother, which led her to her first mental breakdown. She then started to rise up against her father’s tyrannical behavior. When he died, she felt free to pursue her literary career. The Bloomsbury Group To do so, she moved to the Bloomsbury area of London, where she became part of the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of artists, writers and intellectuals which, unlike other intellectual groups, supported gay rights, women in the arts, pacifism, open marriages, uninhibited sexuality and other unconventional ideas. They openly rejected the old Victorian ideals and adopted more liberal and progressive attitudes. In fact, they saw Victorian society as prudish and narrow-minded, therefore they chose to live freely and unrestricted. In 1912, Woolf married Leonard Woolf, In 1915, she published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in which she experimented with a lot of literary devices, including compelling and unusual narrative perspectives, dream-states and free association prose. In 1925, Woolf received rave reviews for Mrs. Dalloway, her fourth novel. In 1941, Woolf succumbed to her depression, filled her pockets with stones, and walked into the River Ouse. Her work makes her a pillar of both feminism and modernism.