Posts Tagged ‘Mrs. Dalloway’
I have a new post up at Blogging Woolf. Again, I am writing about Mrs. Dalloway; this time, I am focused on looking at how Woolf reveals Clarissa’s day chronologically. I use an Anna Benjamin article to break down the day.
I will be teaching Mrs. Dalloway this semester, so expect a lot more from me over at Blogging Woolf as the semester goes on.
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.
I want to highlight a few guest blog posts I have contributed in recent weeks:
First, I contributed to Prof Hacker’s big #mla09 wrapup about the role of social media at the conference. There is a lot of great information and ideas in that post. I tried to come at it from a different angle that hopefully supplement the other ideas.
Secondly, I wrote a post about the role of intertextuality in Mrs. Dalloway for the Blogging Woolf weblog. This coincides with the Mrs. Dalloway Online Discussion Day that happened a day later as part of Woolf In Winter. Hopefully, in the future, I will be writing a few more posts for Blogging Woolf.
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)
Recently read: The Oresteia by Aeschylus.
It’s funny that we are reading this in my summer course on tragedy with Dr. Evarts. I discussed Agamemnon in my presentation on intertextual referencing in Mrs. Dalloway last semester.
Aeschylus is one of my favorite Greek writers. The Oresteia is a powerful trilogy that still feels extremely relevant to today’s world. My classmates were very interested in the role Cassandra plays, but I found Athena’s role, and explanation, for breaking the hung jury to be more intriguing.
I forgot to mention in my presentation on Woolf, and this might be a coincidence, but both Aeschylus and Woolf use foreshadowing to offer a lot of “spoiler alerts!” in their work. Seriously, I argued with a friend a few months back that Woolf gives away the ending of Mrs. Dalloway in the second paragraph. Pretty cool nonetheless. Anyhow, the red tapestries and other devices in Agamemnon also foreshadow the ending.
Also: Robert Fagles’ translation is lovely and quite poetic. Whatever the one the class was using, I can’t remember at the moment, was a lot more…let’s say, bland. Fagles, as always, offers a superior translation.
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