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The Dark Places Of Psychology: Consciousness In Virginia Woolf's Major Novels, Linda Martin
The Dark Places Of Psychology: Consciousness In Virginia Woolf's Major Novels, Linda Martin
Honors Projects
In a 1919 essay, Virginia Woolf wrote that “[f]or the moderns ‘that,’ the point of interest, lies very likely in the dark places of psychology.” For Woolf, this assertion represented a career-long interest in the mind and consciousness; she made a project of describing and explaining the mystery of subjective experience in her fiction. In my paper, I argue that specific, turn-of-the-century psychologists’ and scholars’ theories of consciousness influenced and inspired Woolf to integrate their ideas into her fiction. Further, through an in-depth exploration of Woolf’s middle fiction (Jacob’s Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves), I demonstrate …
(Review) Polish Literature From 1918 To 2000: An Anthology, Andrea Lanoux
(Review) Polish Literature From 1918 To 2000: An Anthology, Andrea Lanoux
Slavic Studies Faculty Publications
The article reviews the book "Polish Literature From 1918 to 2000: An Anthology," edited and translated by Michael J. Mikoś.
The Mother Tongues Of Modernity: Modernism, Transnationalism, Translation, Roland K. Végső
The Mother Tongues Of Modernity: Modernism, Transnationalism, Translation, Roland K. Végső
Department of English: Faculty Publications
The relation of modernism to immigrant literatures should not be conceived in terms of an opposition between universalistic and particularistic discourses. Rather, we should explore what can be called a modernist transnationalism based on a general universalist argument. Two examples of this transnationalism are explored side by side: Ezra Pound’s and Anzia Yezierska’s definitions of the aesthetic act in terms of translation. The readings show that the critical discourses of these two authors are structured by a belief in universalism while showing opposite possibilities, both generated by modernist transnationalism. The essay concludes that we now need to interpret the cultures …
Review: Electric Salome, Loie Fuller's Performance Of Modernism, Tim Scholl
Review: Electric Salome, Loie Fuller's Performance Of Modernism, Tim Scholl
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
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