Virginia Woolf: The Outer and the Inner

Bc. Anna Krausová

Master's thesis

Abstract:

In my MA thesis I analyze ways in which Virginia Woolf expresses the outer and the inner aspects of life in the novels Orlando: A Biography and The Years. Woolf wrote the novel The Years on the basis of an unpublished work which was first published in 1977 under the title The Pargiters: The Novel-Essay Portion of The Years. In my thesis I devote one separate chapter to this novel-essay as this work is important for understanding The Years in which Woolf mixes fact and vision.

Keywords

Orlando, A Biography, creative imagination, creative process, a sex change from male to female, Vita Sackville-West, the portrait and its model, temporal selves, the real self, the form, the present moment, finding one’s own artistic self, fame, ‘the spirit of the age’, identity, the psychological concept of time, The Pargiters, The Novel-Essay Portion of The Years, novel-essay, the reality, the essay parts, the fictional parts, externality, 1880, the Pargiter family, Abercorn Terrace, The Years, combining fact and vision, pattern, unity, wholeness, the fragmentary world, here and now, the past, the present, the future, internal, external, repetition, the passage of time, lack of communication, the sharing of experience, the values of a patriarchal society, uncertainty, isolation

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 2. 6. 2008

Thesis defence

• Date of defence: 9. 6. 2008
• Supervisor: Mgr. Klára Kolinská, M.A.

Masaryk University

Faculty of Arts

Master programme / field:
Philology / English Language and Literature