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But somehow into that picture must be brought, too, the sense of movement and change. Nothing remained stable long. One must get the feeling of everything approaching and then disappearing, getting large, getting small, passing at different rates past the little creature...' 'I opened it and began to read some poem.
Rooms of Memory: “A Sketch of the Past” At the beginning of “A Sketch of the Past,” the main piece in the collec-tion of autobiographical writings published as Moments of Being in 1976, then again in extended form in 1985, Woolf wonders whether it is possible for “things we have felt with great intensity” to “have an existence inde-
14 de dez. de 2011 · Woolf died by her own hand before she made of this memoir a literary work equal to her fiction. It feels like a draft still searching for its structure, and ends abruptly. But what a memoir, and the very model for those who believe memoir must, as they say, “interrogate memory.” “A Sketch of the Past” is better for my money than another ...
In “A Sketch”, the obstacles to a full reconstruction of the past turn visible and inevitable that there is the creation of a new past, similar to it but also different from it. In spite of all the efforts at truthfulness, the truth the text produces is always necessarily revisited, corrected and revised in its telling, a mixture of past and present, a process of self-invention.
Indicates how one aspect of ego psychology, that having to do with sensory images and their relation to sex and emotion, may be related to V. Woolf's literary genius. A process is sketched in which Woolf's images are related to key traumas and emotional/sexual experiences that were displaced to the sensory realm and thus intensified to psychosensory or semihallucinatory images. This ...
Abstract. This article examines the deadlocks foregrounded in recreating and reconstituting memory in Virginia Woolf’s “A Sketch of the Past” from the body’s perspective. “Body” is ...
3 de jul. de 2022 · While the achievements of Virginia Woolf have provided a rich site for decades of study from numerous critical angles, Woolf has largely been seen as a masterful narrator of psychological interiority. Her most widely read novels—Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and The Waves (1931)—plunge into the human psyche. Yet Woolf’s own working theory of psychology posits two main ...
