Literature 3741 - Virginia Woolf

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Bard College

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GSS Students read Woolf's novels, from The Voyage Out ( 1915) to Between the Acts ( 1941), in the context of two distinct periods of innovation and conflict in 20th-century literary culture. The first period, beginning "on or about December 1910," as Woolf suggested, was the formation of the Bloomsbury circle, in particular, and English modernism, in general. What makes Woolf a modernist? How did her interactions with other members of the literary avantgarde (Forster, Eliot, even Joyce and Mansfield), as well as artists and thinkers associated with Bloomsbury, shape her experiments in fiction? The second period, following the women's movement in England and America of the 1960s and 1970s, saw the introduction into the academy of feminist literary criticism. Why did Woolf's novels and essays, especially "A Roomof One's Own," become canonical texts of late20th-century feminism? Has Woolf's literary reputation fared well in the wake of "postfeminism"?How are early 21st-century readers coming to terms with her difficult-to-categorize literary imagination?

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4.00

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www.bard.edu

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(845) 758-6822

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Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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