Search results for "Woolf"

"Frater, ave atque vale" (Catull. 101.10): fortuna literaria de una fórmula epigráfica

2011

Trabajo realizado dentro del Grupo de Investigación «Tradiciones Clásicas» de la UPV/EHU (GIU-07-26) [ES] En este artículo ofrecemos un panorama con algunos de los autores modernos –Tennyson, Swinburne, V. Woolf, G. Moore, C.K. Stead y Anne Carson– que han dado nueva vida al motivo del saludo directo al difunto, a partir del carmen 101 de Catulo, cuyo verso 10 sigue gozando de un especial éxito, apoyado por la efectiva simplicidad de su saludo emotivo al hermano y de su forma, asequible y reconocible aun cuando el conocimiento de la lengua latina sea menor. [EN] In this article we offer an overview of some of the modern authors (specially Tennyson, Swinburne, V. Woolf, G. Moore, C.K. Stead,…

A Room of One’s Own : Weiblichkeit, Schreiben und kollektive Erfahrung in Elena Ferrantes Tetralogie L’amica geniale (2011-2014) und Annie Ernaux’ Le…

2021

With her famous suggestion to «give her [the woman] a room of her own and five hundred a year, let her speak her mind» from 1929, Virginia Woolf verbalized a core issue of female writing by hinting at the socioeconomic circumstances and domestic obligations of most women – valid at her times, but still today. Both Elena Ferrante and Annie Ernaux discuss, in their respective novels, the topics of being women in the particular sociocultural land-scape (in Italy and, respectively, in France) after World War II and up to these days, the themes of marriage and motherhood, employment and especially (female) authorship. This article aims to show in a close reading of both Ferrante and Ernaux that …

Contre l'autonomie et la clôture du texte : formes et ambiguïtés de la fiction moderniste européenne : (1910-1939)

2014

Although it has been a key concept of literary criticism in the English-speaking world for more than a half-century, modernism remains a relatively misunderstood notion in France, owing to its proximity to somewhat close concepts such as modernity and avant-garde, which it only partially overlaps. The concept is relevant to experimentation in all literary genres, but this study focuses on the novel, with texts by James Joyce, André Gide, Ramón Gómez de la Serna and Virginia Woolf. Those have often been mischaracterized by literary critics as either mimetic novels — though more realistic than realist novels — or more frequently as emblematic of the self-referential text, as defined by the do…

A Form for Writing 20th Century Loss: Aesthetics of Absence in Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room

2021

Considerada la seva primera novel·la modernista, Jacob’s Room (1922) de Virginia Woolf seria recordada per les seves tecniques experimentals per a contar la historia de Jacob, qui va morir a la Primera Guerra Mundial. La construccio del que es en el fons del seu personatge mes misterios ofereix una resposta diferent a les realitats canviants de la guerra i serveix com manera literaria de dol que busca no tant consolar com preservar i transmetre l’absencia provocada per les perdues de la Gran Guerra. Aqui es presenta una analisis de l’estetica de l’absencia a l’obra de Woolf, i s’afirma que anticipa preocupacions posteriors al tractar experiencies de violencia de masses en la literatura. De …

Una habitación propia en los márgenes de la cultura

2006

El texto está enteramente dedicado a “Una habitación propia” de Virginia Woolf. En primer lugar, se repasan las dificultades que han pesado históricamente sobre las mujeres con vocación de escritoras y a las que alude la autora. Después, se presta atención a una de las tesis centrales de la teoría literaria contenida en este libro, a saber, la idea de que las grandes mentes creadoras de la literatura han sido esencialmente andróginas. A la luz de este principio se comparan las figuras de dos de las novelistas más sobresalientes del siglo XIX: Charlotte Brontë y Jane Austen. Se hace referencia, por último, a la necesidad, tanto simbólica como real, de que las mujeres dispongan de una habitac…

Polish Translations of Anglo-American Literature and the Question of Ideology : From Romanticism to Twentieth-Century Avant-Gardes

2017

Ideology has always influenced translation, yet this fact became a topic of scholarly research only in the 1990s. The working of ideology in literary translations most often manifests itself as a conflict of value systems. From vast reservoir of foreign sources, the native axiology absorbs values that it needs to sustain its culture. It is not a coincidence that Anglo-American literature, propagating ideas of democracy and individual freedom, became popular in Poland in the first half of the nineteenth-century when Poland did not exist as a state. Only a century later, American literature was the most popular of all foreign literatures in pre-1939 Poland. World War II changed this situation…

Tammipuun katveessa : aika ja identiteetti Virginia Woolfin romaanissa Orlando

1999

Les éléments déictiques dans l'Enfance de Nathalie Sarraute et The Waves de Virginia Woolf : étude comparative

1999

Orlando, posterity and textual survival beyond the book

2022

This paper’s premise is that certain texts call for adaptation in the sense that they encapsulate anxieties about their posterity and their survival beyond their current material actualization. Orlando’s musings on death and immortality in Virginia Woolf’s eponymous novel are a case in point as they reflect a conflicted longing for the solidity of commemorative monuments and for the immateriality of memory-scapes. Lying “entombed” and “embalmed” in the medium of the book, words also rise “like an incantation” when brought to life by the reader (Orlando, Penguin Classics, 2000, 57). This passage is to be related to the modernist revival of interest in the works of Sir Thomas Browne which not…

"Tightrope walking the twenty-first century": Jeanette Winterson's vital connections with Modernism

2012

International audience; In Art Objects (1995), her aesthetic manifesto, Jeanette Winterson calls for a new literature for the new millennium, and new forms of writing that could “answer to twenty-first-century needs”. Far from repudiating the past, Winterson urges the twenty-first-century artist to turn to previous generations for inspiration, and to draw poetic power from the “lineage of art”. Since “every new beginning prompts a return”, before he/she can fully experiment with language, the true artist must first experience his/her vital connections with the past, not in the spirit of ancestor worship, but to reclaim past literature, “(re-state) and (re-instate) (it) in its original vigou…