“Saint Samuel of Fleet Street”

Author(s):  
Anthony W. Lee

Both Samuel Johnson and Virginia Woolf excelled in several genres—fiction, essay-writing, journals and diaries, biography, and criticism—and both held common attitudes toward a number of important topics. Furthermore, Woolf’s writings betray an admiration for and attraction to Johnson, as is suggested in the title of the chapter, “‘Saint Samuel of Fleet Street’: Johnson and Woolf,” which contrasts and compares a number of topics linking the two. The chapter then looks more closely at two particular genres, literary criticism and biography, and concludes with a meditation upon Johnson and Woolf’s intertextual engagements.

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-263
Author(s):  
Dunya AlJazrawi ◽  
Zeena AlJazrawi

This study aims at examining the use of metadiscourse markers in literary criticism texts to identify the role of the reader and how these markers are used to produce more persuasive essays. The data of 72,727 words from 17 texts were written by three well-known authors, namely, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf and Stanley Fish. Hyland’s (2005) model of interpersonal metadiscourse markers was used to analyze the data. The analysis revealed that metadiscourse markers are used by literary critics to create coherent and persuasive texts. It was found out that the theory of criticism adopted by the literary critics does not affect the use of metadiscourse markers only maybe in terms of relying more on logos, ethos or pathos. The results of this study comply with those of previous research showing that metadiscourse markers are frequently used in literary criticism texts. This study will contribute to both the literary genre and the genre of critical essays by identifying the linguistic features to be used to produce more effective and convincing literary criticism texts. It will also help future critics to write more persuasive texts by highlighting the means that enable them to influence their readers and to produce more coherent and convincing texts. Keywords metadiscourse; persuasion; literary criticism; essays; critical theory


Scriptorium ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 33180
Author(s):  
Adriana Madeira Coutinho

Este artigo reflete sobre a condição humana e seu fim último, a morte, através do romance “To the Lighthouse”, de Virginia Woolf, em que a narrativa se desenvolve na relação entre a vida e a morte. Nas três partes do romance os acontecimentos giram em torno da morte, não só da morte física mas também de uma morte simbólica. Para tanto são apontadas algumas observações sobre subjetivismo e realidade objetiva, sobre temporalidade e sobre a própria prosa moderna nas formulações de Erich Auerbach. Em uma perspectiva empírica a autora aproxima o romance de sua realidade concreta, desnuda a dificuldade da escrita após um evento traumático além de apresentar aos leitores a fragilidade humana diante do inesperado. O presente trabalho foi realizado com apoio da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brasil (CAPES) - Código de Financiamento 001.  *** When silence tells what happened: death in "To the Lighthouse" ***This article reflects on the human condition and its ultimate end, death, through Virginia Woolf's novel "To the Lighthouse," where the narrative unfolds in the relationship between life and death. In the three parts of the novel, events revolve around death, not only physical death but also a symbolic death. To this end, some observations on subjectivism and objective reality, on temporality, and on modern prose itself in the formulations of Erich Auerbach are pointed out. In an empirical perspective, the author brings the novel closer to its concrete reality, exposes the difficulty of writing after a traumatic event, as well as presenting the human frailty before the unexpected. This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brasil (CAPES) – Finance Code 001.Keywords: Virginia Woolf; Death; Human condition; Literary criticism.


2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Eka Fajar Rahmani

<p><strong>Abstrak</strong></p><p>Penelitian bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah penerapan teknik collaborative writing dapat mengembangkan kecerdasan emosional mahasiswa. Penelitian menggunakan metode deskriptif kuantitatif. Alat pengumpul data menggunakan kuesioner berdasarkan pada 5 aspek kecerdasan emosional yang mencakup<em> self-awareness, self-regulation, self-motivation, social awareness,</em> dan <em>social skills.</em> Teknik analisis data dilakukan dengan perhitungan persentase dari butir kuesioner, dilanjutkan dengan interpretasi dan deskripsi data dari persepsi mahasiswa terhadap kecerdasan emosional setelah teknik <em>collaborative writing</em> diterapkan. Subjek penelitian adalah mahasiswa Sekolah Tinggi Bahasa Asing Pontianak yang mengikuti kelas <em>Essay Writing</em> dan <em>Literary Criticism</em> berjumlah 43 orang dan dipilih menggunakan teknik <em>purposive sampling</em>. Berdasarkan hasil analisis data, terjadi peningkatan kecerdasan emosional mahasiswa setelah diterapkannya teknik <em>collaborative writing</em> yang ditunjukkan dengan peningkatan respons pada aspek kecerdasan emosional.</p><p> </p><p><em><strong>Abstract</strong></em></p><p><em>This research aimed to find out if the implementation of collaborative writing techniques could develop the emotional intelligence of students. This research used descriptive quantitative method. Data collection tools used a questionnaire based on 5 aspects of emotional intelligence which include self-awareness, self-regulation, self-motivation, social awareness, and social skills. The data were analyzed by calculating the percentages of each questionnaire item, then continued to interpret and describe the implementation of collaborative writing technique. The subjects of this research were 43 students of Sekolah Tinggi Bahasa Asing Pontianak who enrolled in Essay Writing and Literary Criticism classes, with a total of 43 students who were selected using purposive sampling technique. The results of the data analysis indicated that there happened improvements towards the emotional intelligence after collaborative technique was implemented shown by the increase of positive responses on emotional intelligence aspects.</em></p>


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-96
Author(s):  
Anna Maria Cipriani

Defined as “the decade of translations”, the 1930s saw the publication of Virginia Woolf’s novels Orlando, Flush, and To the lighthouse in Italian. In the cultural and political context of Fascism, this is unexpected, given the peculiarities of Woolf’s experimental prose. Italian literary criticism was firmly founded on a normative anti-modernist canon, supported by both the Catholic Church, which decried modernism and excommunicated some modernist writers, and by the literary movement led by the anti-Fascist and liberal philosopher Benedetto Croce. This de facto intellectual dictatorship complemented the official cultural policy of the Fascist regime by generating another dimension of censorship that invariably affected the publication of periodicals and books. The present work focuses on the effects of this triple (political, moral, and literary) censorship on the first translation of To the lighthouse.


Joseph Addison: Tercentenary Essays is a collection of fifteen essays by a team of internationally recognized experts specially commissioned to commemorate in 2019 the three-hundredth anniversary of Addison’s death. Almost exclusively known now as the inventor and main author of The Spectator, probably the most widely read and imitated prose work of the eighteenth century, Addison also produced important and influential work across a broad gamut of other literary modes-poems, verse translations, literary criticism, periodical journalism, drama, opera, travel writing. Much of this work is little known nowadays even in specialist academic circles; Addison is often described as the most neglected of the eighteenth century’s major writers. Joseph Addison: Tercentenary Essays sets out to redress that neglect; it is the first essay collection ever published which addresses the full range and variety of his career and writings. Its fifteen chapters fall into three groupings: an initial group of five dealing with Addison’s work in modes other than the literary periodical (poetry, translation, travel writing, drama); a central core of five addressing The Spectator from a variety of disciplinary perspectives (literary-critical, sociological and political, bibliographical); and a final set of five exploring Addison’s reception within several cultural spheres (philosophy, horticulture, art history) by individual writers (Samuel Johnson) or across larger historical periods (the Romantic age, the Victorian age), and in Britain and Europe (especially France). Joseph Addison: Tercentenary Essays provides an overdue and appropriately diverse memorial to one of the eighteenth century’s dominant men of letters.


Author(s):  
Robert Crawford

This chapter examines the three most significant depictions of Scotland by English creative writers. In Macbeth Shakespeare presents Scotland as politically riven, chaotic, and horrifying, its only hope lying in English-backed political intervention; Samuel Johnson structures his Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland so as to minimize the glories of the Scottish Enlightenment in Glasgow and Edinburgh, presenting instead ruined St Andrews, and Scotland as an often primitive ‘other’ in need of Anglicization; in To the Lighthouse, though Virginia Woolf does show some interest in distinctively Scottish aspects of her setting, principally Scotland is a stand-in for the south-west of England she associated with her childhood. Revealingly, unlike several major Scottish writers, English creative writers failed to articulate a distinctive ideology of Britishness. In English literature it is Englishness, not Britishness, that matters. This has obvious political consequences.


1982 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Júnia De Castro Magalhães Alves ◽  
Maria José Ferreira

The term 'realism' has been used in many different ways. Thus, rather than assume or state a particular sense of the term to be used in this discussion of Virginia Woolf, we shall here consider her work in the light of various epistemological problems arising from a philosophy which for both intrinsic and historical reasons seems relevant to her life and work - the philosophy of G. E. Moore. Our exploration of the particular form of realism to be found in Virginia Woolf’s work will therefore lead us to consider problems of philosophy, literary criticism and techniques of fiction.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Débora Magalhães Cunha Rodrigues

RESUMO: Elisa Lispector escreveu inúmeros romances e contos, recebendo prêmios por alguns deles. A escritora, embora tenha explorado a construção de uma subjetividade feminina, é quase sempre lembrada pelos escritos autobiográficos, principalmente o romance No exílio de 1948. A crítica esteve mais atenta às narrativas que iluminavam episódios da vida de sua irmã caçula, Clarice Lispector, do que às especificidades de sua escrita. A obra e a trajetória de Clarice Lispector causaram sombra não só à obra de sua irmã como às de outras escritoras do mesmo período.  Neste artigo, questionamos o papel da crítica no apagamento do nome de Elisa Lispector na literatura brasileira que tomou o caso Clarice como excepcional, negando às escritoras, de um modo geral, um espaço para debater seus textos e subjetividades. Além da vinculação da obra da escritora à obra de sua irmã pela crítica literária, analisamos como a tradição literária falocêntrica contribuiu para este apagamento. Elisa Lispector contribuiu para o debate acerca do baixo número de publicações de escritoras, evocando Virginia Woolf e Simone de Beauvoir. Atuou para que as escritoras pudessem ter uma tradição em que se ancorar. Analisamos os romances O muro de pedras publicado em 1963, O dia mais longo de Thereza de 1965, A última porta de 1975, Corpo a corpo de 1983 e do conto “Uma outra temporada no inferno” de seu último livro O tigre de bengala publicado em 1985, demonstrando como a escritora explorou os processos de emancipação feminina e os conflitos comuns a esta fase de transição.BEYOND A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN: THE CASE ELISA LISPECTORABSTRACT: Elisa Lispector has written numerous novels and short stories, receiving awards for some of them. The writer, although she explored the construction of a female subjectivity, is almost always remembered for autobiographical writings, especially the novel No exílio of 1948. The criticism was more attentive to the narratives that illuminated episodes of the life of her younger sister, Clarice Lispector, than to the specificities of her writing. Clarice Lispector's work and trajectory cast a shadow not only on her sister's work but also on those of other writers of the same period. In this article, we question the role of criticism in the elimination of Elisa Lispector's name in Brazilian literature, which took Clarice as exceptional, denying writers, in general, a space to debate their texts and subjectivities. In addition to linking the writer's work to her sister's work by literary criticism, we analyze how the phallocentric literary tradition contributed to this elimination. Elisa Lispector contributed to the debate about the low number of writers' publications, evoking Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir. It worked so that the writers could have a tradition in which to anchor themselves. We analyze the novels O muro de pedras published in 1963, O dia mais longo de Thereza of 1965, A última porta of 1975, Corpo a corpo of 1983 and the short story "Uma outra temporada no inferno" from her last book O tigre de bengala published in 1985, demonstrating how the writer explored the processes of female emancipation and the conflicts common to this phase of transition.Keywords: Elisa Lispector; feminist criticism; Brazilian literature.


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