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Abstract. In this chapter, DeSanta explores the aesthetic implications and textual manifestations of Woolf’s affective illness as revealed in the essay “On Being Ill” (1930), in which Woolf took on the challenge of “inventing” a language of illness in the distinctive poetics of her fiction, in the absence of an established literary language to communicate the altered body.
The Language of Illness: Vision, Perception, and Isolation in Virginia Woolf’s Ill Characters by Mary Demery A thesis presented for the B. A. degree With Honors in The Department of English University of Michigan Winter 2012.
Virginia Woolf's Granite and Rainbow contains 27 essays on the art of fiction and biography. There are many sidelights on Woolf in the writings, letters, and biographies of other members of her Bloomsbury circle, such as Roger Fry, John Maynard Keynes (see Vol. 3), and Lytton Strachey (see Vol. 3). Also casting much light on her life, thought, and creative processes are The Common Reader (1925.
In her essay “On Being Ill,” Virginia Woolf indicates that she saw the power of the body to shape consciousness as undermining what literature had generally presented. This essay suggests that The Waves is structured to make us feel that unending procession of physical changes. The interludes provide a time sequence that seems utterly natural and the sections between the interludes mark.
Virginia Woolf was, and wanted to be, a revolutionist. She despised conventional thinking which destroyed the imaginative process of all artists and writers. She despised the conventional thinking that upheld the child-like dependency that was forced upon women and both of these themes she displayed in her novels to tell the world as to how ridiculous these barriers are. Woolf thus suggested.
Virginia Woolf, English writer whose novels, through their nonlinear approaches to narrative, exerted a major influence on the genre. Best known for her novels Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, she also wrote pioneering essays on artistic theory, literary history, women’s writing, and the politics of power.
Get FREE shipping on On Being Ill by Virginia; Stephen Woolf, from wordery.com. This new publication of On Being Ill with Notes from Sick Rooms presents Virginia Woolf and her mother Julia Stephen in textual conversation for the first time in literary history. In the poignant and humorous essay On Being Ill, Virginia.