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Orlando by Virginia Woolf.
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Biography EssayThe writings of Virginia Woolf have always been admired by discriminating readers, but her work has suffered, as has that of many other major authors, periods of neglect by the literary...
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The English novelist, critic, and essayist Virginia Stephen Woolf (1882-1941) ranks as one of England's most distinguished writers of the period between World War I and World War II. Her novels can pe...
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English writer Virginia Woolf was one of the most innovative and influential literary figures of the twentieth century. A prolific author of essays, journals, letters, and long and short fiction, she ...
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The writings of Virginia Woolf have always been admired by discriminating readers, but her work has suffered, as has that of many other major authors, periods of neglect by the literary establishment....
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Virginia Woolf is known primarily as a novelist rather than as an essayist, although she was a prolific writer of essays. Indeed, one of her advocates has gone so far as to say that her reputation as ...
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Although Virginia Woolf published only eighteen works of short fiction, she was engaged in writing short stories, sketches, and even experimental prose poems throughout her writing career. Recent rese...
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An English novelist, short story writer, and essayist of the early twentieth century, Bennett is credited with bringing techniques of European Naturalism to the English novel. He is best known as the ...
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In the following excerpt, Skulsky examines Orlando's transformation from male to female.
The sun is out again; I have half forgotten Orlando already, since L. [Woolf's husband, Leonard] ...
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In the following excerpt, Squier analyzes Orlando as Woolf's challenge to the tradition of realistic novels initiated by Daniel Defoe.
On March 14, 1927 Virginia Woolf recorded in her diary the...
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In the following essay, Caughie challenges feminist readings of Orlando.
Written by a feminist (Virginia Woolf), for a bisexual (Vita Sackville-West), about an androgyne (Orlando), the novel Orlando w...
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An American man of letters best known for his poetry, Aiken was deeply influenced by the psychological and literary theories of Sigmund Freud, Havelock Ellis, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henri Bergson, among...
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Bowen was an Anglo-Irish fiction writer and critic. Often compared with the fiction of Virginia Woolf her novels and short stories display a similar stylistic control and subtle insight in the portray...
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In the following excerpt, Samuelson discusses Woolf's "defiant feminist spirit" in Orlando.
Orlando is virtually the only work of Virginia Woolf's in which critical questio...
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In the following essay, German and Kaehele examine Woolf's presentation of "the dialectic of time" in Orlando.
Signs of the twentieth century's preoccupation with time can ...
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In the following excerpt, Guiguet draws on Woolf's diary entries to examine her intentions in writing Orlando and to assess the significance of the novel to her literary development.
On Decembe...
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In the following excerpt, Thakur analyzes symbolism in Orlando.
Talking about Orlando, David Daiches says [in The Novel and the Modern World], 'It would be a weary task to disentangle the profo...
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In the following excerpt, Naremore discusses Wool's attempt in Orlando to devise a new type of biography that evokes personality through a combination of fact and fiction.
In the interval betwe...
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In the following excerpt, Lee discusses Woolf's use of the life and writings of Vita Sackville-West as inspiration for Orlando.
Orlando has a different quality from all Virginia Woolf's ...
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As I am reading Orlando, I am also reading Orlando. I am reading him/her like a book through a book about him/her. Lost yet? I am in the center of Orlando. I do not know where I stand, but I know th...
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Teaching Orlando
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