Virginia Woolf and Modernity
Term:
Fall 2010
Subject Code:
GLIB
Course Number:
5536
This course will focus
on Virginia Woolf as a major figure of modernity. Woolf was at the center of British
intellectual life and the Bloomsbury Group and revolutionized the literary
forms in which she worked. She was also
fascinated by the texture of the modern experience; she wrote about the cinema
and interior design, published Sigmund Freud, and appeared in Vogue. Through close readings of her novels, short
stories, book-length political writings, essays, and diary selections, and
through broader theoretical discussions, we will examine the aesthetic,
political, and cultural implications of Woolf’s work. Topics will include modernism's formal
innovations, depictions of consciousness, Woolf’s responses to war and fascism,
and her relationship to the women’s movement and feminism.
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