Death and contentment in Virginia Woolf’s war novels
One of the most striking characteristics of Virginia Woolf´s war novels – Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927) – is the confrontation of death and mortality in the fabric of everyday life (and of the narrative). Death and destruction – set forth historically by World War I – lurk in the...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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UNIABEU
2010-11-01
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Series: | Revista e-scrita : Revista do Curso de Letras da UNIABEU |
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Online Access: | http://www.uniabeu.edu.br/publica/index.php/RE/article/view/42/pdf_27 |
Summary: | One of the most striking characteristics of Virginia Woolf´s war novels – Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927) – is the confrontation of death and mortality in the fabric of everyday life (and of the narrative). Death and destruction – set forth historically by World War I – lurk in the background, but Woolf expands her fiction into a reflection on what it means to be mortal whose depth and beauty rival with Shakespeare and Montaigne. The thrust of these novels is to show the ways by which a mortal existence can be enough and this is a brief study of how Virginia Woolf manages to pull this off. |
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ISSN: | 2177-6288 |