This article discusses one of Virginia Woolf's greatest literary concerns: the difficulty of expressing human experience through language. The focus is on The Voyage Out, her first novel, published in 1915, particularly the conflicts and contrasts present not only in the trajectory of Rachel Vinrace, the main character, but also in the structure of the novel itself, which establish a constant ...
England, her voyage out of herself, and ultimately her voyage out of life. On the literal level, these themes are represented by Rachel’s trip out from England on her father’s ship, Euphrosyne (NAREMORE, 1973, p. 7). Since Rachel is the hub of the story, in addition to the voyage out, there is also a strong emphasis on a voyage “in”,
St. John Alaric Hirst, a friend of Hewet, twenty-four years old, a scholar and a fellow of King’s College. He is one of the most distinguished young intellectuals in England. He is in Santa ...
1 de jan. de 2009 · 内容简介 · · · · · ·. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫(1882—1941),英国意识流文学的代表性作家之一。. 《到灯塔去》描写一次大战后拉姆齐教授一家和几个亲密朋友在苏格兰某岛屿上度假的一段生活。. 作者企图在这部情节非常简单的小说中探讨人生的意义和自我的本质 ...
30 de ago. de 2009 · The development of The Voyage Out can be easily compared to her second novel Night and Day, which I prefer its characters better - she tends to express women's difficulties towards society, sex, and their discouraging marital purposes that, as I mentioned already, resembling an Austen's novel, but with the difference that Woolf's heroines aren't shaped or educated by their lovers, but they ...
Fin de viaje (título original en inglés, The Voyage Out) es la primera novela publicada por Virginia Woolf en 1915 por la editorial de su medio hermano, Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd; publicado en Estados Unidos en 1920 por Doran. Es una de las más ingeniosas sátiras sociales de Woolf. En Fin de viaje, una de las novelas más ...
1 de jun. de 2019 · Looking back on The Voyage Out, Woolf could see, she said, why readers found it “a more gallant and inspiring spectacle” than her next and least known book Night and Day. This second novel is usually regarded as her most traditional in form and subject—in its social satire, her obeisance to Jane Austen.