Posts Tagged ‘Anna Of The Five Towns’
In recent weeks, I have a new post up over at Blogging Woolf. This time I am writing about Mrs. Dalloway again, specifically the role of the epic hero in the novel compared to Arnold Bennett’s novel Anna of the Five Towns. This was revised from a paper I wrote in graduate school and a few dinner conversations with Toni Magyar back then.
I really enjoy writing for Blogging Woolf. I will be posting more over there soon about Intermodernism.
I have contributed another post to Blogging Woolf, this time about the role of intertextual and geographical citation in the works of Virginia Woolf and Arnold Bennett. If you look to the right hand side of the weblog, I am now listed as a writer. I will contribute posts on a semi-regular basis about Woolf and a number of subjects related to her writing.
For Dr. Kristin Bluemel’s course on the Novel, my seminar paper consisted of comparison of Arnold Bennett’s Anna Of The Five Towns and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Given their famous feud, I found they had a lot more in common than I thought they would. I wanted to look at how these novels show different ways in which “real” history, specifically that of women, is recorded. I examined the intertextual approach Woolf uses against the geographic, author based, approach Bennett uses. A big question became how is intertextuality a different form of citation than geography. After carefully examining both novels, and authors, I found that they came to similar, but not totally the same, conclusions. (PDF)
My oral presentation for Dr. Bluemel’s class on the Novel this spring looked at my favorite novel Mrs. Dalloway. As I note early in my notes for this presentation, Maureen Howard’s foreward to the version I owned inspired me to take a closer look at the intertextual inspirations Woolf was using while writing the novel. Further discussions with Dr. Bluemel would lead me to the focus of my final paper for the class: a comparison of how Arnold Bennett’s Anna Of The Towns and Mrs. Dalloway use geography and intertextuality to record the “real” history of women. (PDF)
