Mrs. Dalloway's wanderings
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In London
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Location
London
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This course will use selections from Mrs Dalloway to explore and understand how the changes in the exterior world of place and experience revealed new understanding of the interior world of identity and vision. Woolf’s writing reflects a love of London where she gained inspiration from the diversity of people and encounters she had in the city streets. Woolf is a significant member of the loose collective known as the Bloomsbury group whose work in visual arts, criticism, philosophy, literature among other areas re-defined British art in the early 20th century. This course will provide background on the Bloomsbury set, using our study of the book to locate the innovations in the visual medium that Woolf employed in literature.
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About this course
• Understand the innovations in literature that Woolf was developing
• Have a significant understanding of the themes and writing in Mrs Dalloway
• Situate Mrs Dalloway in its historical and critical moment
• Describe the Bloomsbury set and some of their intellectual contributions.
Please purchase, read and bring to the study Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (rec. ed. Oxford University Press, 2008).
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Subjects
- Art
Course programme
• History and context for Mrs Dalloway as an example of Modernist experimentation
• Close reading and consideration of passages from Mrs Dalloway
• Innovations in art exemplified by images in early British Modernism
• London in the 1920s as captured in Mrs Dalloway.
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Mrs. Dalloway's wanderings