SoSe 22: S-Culture-Gender-Media: Woolf's Intersections
Cordula Lemke
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Virginia Woolf famously claimed that "in 1910 human character changed" and she spent her entire life as a writer examining this situation. The period of Modernism experienced far-reaching challenges to the certainties of Enlightenment thought which had a strong impact on art. New artistic perspectives and poetics evolved around questions of subjectivity, the relativity of truth and a strong feeling of alterity as time-honoured binaries of gender, race and class crumbled. Easily the most important female writer of the period, Virginia Woolf went on to become a pop star revered by feminists and writers today. In this seminar we will be looking not only at Virginia Woolf's own texts but at her iconic status for postmodernist writers.
Texts:
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Michael Cunningham, The Hours
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