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Article: Waves and fragments: linguistic construction as subject formation in Virginia Woolf.
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- Twentieth Century Literature
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- June 22, 1996
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Throughout her work, Virginia Woolf - as a modernist, a feminist, and a woman writer - is preoccupied with questions about how aesthetic form impinges upon social structures and how women, especially as artists, are to conceive of themselves within patriarchal cultures. Woolf addresses these issues directly, of course, in A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, but they are no less crucial - in perhaps even more interesting ways - to her novels. There, the inquiry into women's places in society often appears as an interrogation of subject formation. While scholars have for some time pointed out Woolf's concern with subject construction and the construction of the world, they ...
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... ... have for some time pointed out Woolf's concern with subject construction ... Accordingly, I want to explore The Waves, where, I suggest, Woolf's investigation of subject construction ... between male and female. Yet, as Woolf makes clear with her second pun ...
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