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Romantic Dialogues: Writing the Self in De Quincey and Woolf
No full textVirginia Woolf has been recognised as a pioneering modernist writer creating a new literary voice. It is not unusual to discover in Woolf’s writings the aesthetic and literary traces of those past traditions and influences which have been woven into her modern narratives. One significant, but often overlooked, influence comes from the Romantic period and the essayist, Thomas De Quincey. De Quincey’s stylish essays inspire Woolf’s art. Both writers’ fascination with representing the self (and their devotion to creating a literary thinking about, and narrative of, the subject) indicates a shared affinity between these two writers in spite of important cultural, historical, and social differences between them. My treatment of the self in De Quincey and Woolf is aware of the aesthetic and literary affinities between them and those cultural and historical differences that divide them. Tracing important connections between these two important writers sheds light on the larger concerns and patterns of both the literary scenes of Romanticism and Modernism.
Six chapters in three sections focus on three main aspects of the self central to De Quincey and Woolf—the art of literature, the representation of time and the question of autobiographical writing. Chapter One and Two investigate De Quincey’s literature of power and Woolf’s art of fiction to examine the relationship between literary representation and the self. Chapter Three and Four discuss issues of time and self in De Quincey and Woolf. The final two chapters contend that De Quincey’s and Woolf’s reflections on literary representation, and time as a philosophical problem are embodied in their writings of the self across their respective literary careers. A project of this kind is alert to and enriches a recent burgeoning critical interest from Romanticists and Modernists alike in the exchanges, interchanges, bequests, and legacies of Romanticism to Modernism
Congenital Kidney Diseases
No full textThis chapter focuses on the prospects of new therapies that can be used for congenital kidney diseases, including gene therapies, the use of renal precursor transplantation, and some other novel strategies. Diverse methodologies are devised to introduce genes into mammalian cells, including transfection of DNA by physical means and transduction by viruses. Gene transfer is relatively easy to achieve and can be highly efficient in the artificial and controlled environment of cell culture. An alternative to genetically engineering the kidney is to rebuild a damaged or malformed kidney with new cells. Laboratories demonstrate that it is possible to harvest murine metanephroi in the first days after the organs begin to form and transplant them into sites in the postnatal animal where the embryonic organ would form mature structures, including vascular glomeruli, which filters blood to make urine. The concept of using metanephric kidney transplants to replace the function of failing host kidneys is investigated extensively in a murine model in which rudiments are transplanted into the omentum around the peritoneal cavity where they grow and connect with the host vascular system. After a period of growth, the ureter of the transplanted organ can be anastomosed surgically with the lower urinary tract of the host, and these transplants have a high enough glomerular filtration rate to maintain the life of the host when it is rendered anephric. The transplantation of fetal kidney cells may also offer the additional advantage of rendering the host “tolerant” to immune attack from the host
Virginia Woolf in Context
No full textAs a paradigmatic modernist author, Virginia Woolf is celebrated for the ways her fiction illuminates modern and contemporary life. Woolf scholars have long debated how context – whether historical, cultural, or theoretical – is to be understood in relation to her work, and how her work produces new insights into context. Drawing on an international field of leading and emergent specialists, this collection provides an authoritative resource for contemporary Woolf scholarship that explores the distinct and overlapping dimensions of her writings. Rather than survey existing scholarship, these essays extend Woolf studies in new directions by examining how the author is contextualised today. The collection also highlights connections between Woolf and key cultural, political, and historical issues of the twentieth century such as avant-gardism in music and art, developments in journalism and the publishing industry, political struggles over race, gender, and class, and the bearings of colonialism, empire, and war. A valuable critical touchstone for researchers, the volume will also complement graduate scholarship in English literature, literary theory, context studies, and modernism and postcolonial studies
Development of Kidney Blood Vessels
No full textThe adult mammalian kidney is a highly vascular organ, receiving 20% of the cardiac output. This chapter discusses the anatomy of developing kidney vessels, including the genesis of renal arteries, glomerular capillaries, and the vasa recta microcirculation in the most often used experimental model—the mouse metanephros. Studies have been performed to address the origin of metanephric vessels and some experimental evidence supports the existence of both angiogenesis—the ingrowth of capillaries into the embryonic organ—and vasculogenesis—the in situ differentiation of endothelia. Diverse vascular growth factors are expressed in the developing kidney and these molecules direct the growth of renal blood vessels: they include vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and the angiopoietins, which signal through receptor tyrosine kinases expressed by endothelial precursors. Less is known about cell adhesion molecules and transcription factors in the context of metanephric blood vessel development, although these classes of molecule are certainly important in vessel formation elsewhere in the embryo. The chapter focuses on the morphogenesis of the renal vasculature
Autobiography, chocolate creams and letterpress printing
No full textIn response to the call for printed works on paper to recognise the creative contribution made by the Woolfs and the Hogarth Press to printing, art, literature and book culture as part of the 27th annual international conference Virginia Woolf and the World of Books (June 29-July 3 2017), at the University of Reading, UK, this article describes the collaborative process between an academic and artist in response to the theme author as publisher . The first part describes the steps from idea development, design, locating and accessing a working printing press in Ireland; the second part, based on direct observation, describes the technical aspects of typesetting and letterpress printing, design in relation to the artistic process in adding an image to the letterpress text as well as providing a brief history of Ponc Press. The third part reflects on the possible meanings of chocolate creams to Leonard Woolf, why they book-end his autobiography Beginning Again and how the work of visualizing chocolate creams, re-representing autobiography, touches on Leonard s Jewish and English identity
Hope Mirrlees papers
No full textHope Mirrlees (1887-1978) was an author of novels, poems, and translations. However, she is most remembered for her circle of literary friends, which included T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Lady Ottoline Morrell. She published two novels, Lud-in-the-Mist and Counterplot, and a book of poetry, Moods and Tensions: Poems. She began, but never completed, a biography of seventeenth-century British antiquarian Sir Robert Bruce Cotton; part of this was published as A Fly in Amber in 1962. With Jane Harrison, she produced two translations of Russian literature, The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum by Himself and The Book of the Bear. Her papers consist solely of correspondence; significant correspondents include T. S. Eliot, Ottoline Morrell, Virginia Woolf, and Leonard Woolf
Maldevelopment of the Human Kidney and Lower Urinary Tract
No full textThis chapter focuses on the maldevelopment of human kidney and lower urinary tract, which include the ureter and urinary bladder. Renal malformations are the major cause of chronic renal failure in children. With advances in technology, babies with minimal renal function can be dialyzed from birth and toddlers can receive kidney transplants from the age of one year. The chapter describes the possible causes of human kidney and lower urinary tract malformations, which can be classified into two categories: (1) mutations, and possibly polymorphisms, of genes expressed during development, and (2) environmental influences on development, which can be further subdivided into changes that originate outside the fetus, such as alterations of maternal diet, and changes within the fetus that disrupt normal development, such as impairment of normal fetal urinary flow due to physical obstruction of the urinary tract. Human kidney or lower urinary tract malformation are reported in association with teratogens—angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, drugs used to treat high blood pressure cocaine, corticosteroids, ethanol, gentamycin, glucose, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and vitamin A and its derivatives
Womanhood and vision in virginia woolf's novels
No full textVirginia Woolf의 소설속에는 그녀가 어렸을 때부터 가졌었던 도덕적 관심이 심미적 상장주의나 시적 언어속에 용해되어 조화로운 예술을 이루며 나타나 있다. 그녀의 도덕적 관심을 주로 여성 문제에 관한 것이다. Woolf는 여성이 사회로부터 받은 구속감에 매우 민감하게 반응하였으며 여성의 순수한 본질 및 역할에 대한 예리한 통찰력을 보여 주었다. Woolf에게 있어서는 자유를 갈망하는 여성의 내면적 욕구와 그것을 압박하는 외부적 제약간의 갈등은 여성적 자질과 남성적 자질의 두 대립된 세계의 갈등으로 파악되어 질 수 있다. 객관적 합리성을 지닌 남성적 자질은 지적이고 과학적이긴하나 지나친 사실 위주의 편협성을 지니기 쉽고 이는 남성특유의 허영과 이기심과 함께 여성의 종속을 강요하고 독재적 지배욕을 드러내어 사회적 균열을 초래하는 주요인이 된다고 Woolf는 보았다. 이에 반해 여성의 본질은 창조적 직관으로서 상대방(남성)의 자질을 이해라고 포용할 수 있으며 삶을 융화시킬 수 있는 초월적인 신비한 힘을 지니고 있다고 보았다. 내면적인 개인의 자아완성적(自我完成的)인 면에서나 가정생활 및 사회에서나 이러한 여성적 자질과 남성적 자질이 완전한 화합을 이루게 될 때, 개인과 가정과 사회는 궁극적인 이상적(理想的) 상태에 도달할 수 있다는 것이다. 즉 Woolf의 여성에 대한 관심과 문제 의식은 여성과 남성이라는 두 대립된 세계의 궁극적인 문제 의식은 여성과 남성이라는 두 대립된 세계의 궁극적인 화합을 통해 전체적 완전함을 추구하려는 갈망의 한 소산인 것이다.
Night and Day(1919)에서는 개인적인 내면적 삶에서 두 대립된 측면이 화합을 이루는 androgyny 상태에 도달하는 자아 성숙적인 개인 완성의 역할을, To the Lightouse(1927)에서는 남편과의 교류적 삶에서 사랑과 이해로써 남녀의 대립을 화합시켜 삶을 예술적 경지에로 이끄는 가정에서는 융화적인 여성의 역할을, 그리고 The Years(1937)에서는 남성의 독재성과 지배욕에서 기인된 혼란스럽고 균열된 사회 상황속에서 사회적 구원의 vison을 던져 주는 사회 통찰적인 여성의 역할을 각각 보여 주고 있다.
이러한 Woolf 작품속의 여성의 본질 및 역할에 대한 연구 가치는 Woolf 특유의 reality와 삶의 vision을 이해하는 데 있다.;Most critics have emphasized the formal characteristics of Virginia Woolf's novles, neglecting social significance. However, Woolf dealt with a great deal of social moralism, showed interest in feminine problems. Woolf was very much concerned with social restriction on women and had a keen insight into the pure quality and role of female.
Woolf's reality is composed of the opposities; the outer and the inner, the male and the female, and the rational and the intuitive. The conflict between the social restriction and human need for freedcm could be understood as that of masculinity and feminity. Woolf maintained that the masculine, rational faculties is intellectual and scientific, but the masculinity is liable to be one-sided and tyrannical. One-sideness with vanity and egotism, the characteristics of excessive virility, were responsible for the rise of dictatorship and the war horror. One-sideness of male takes many forms: intellectual rigidity within the mind, paternal tyranny in the home, and male supremacy in the state. Woolf emphasized that women's quality should be recognized and accepted within individual and by society in order to resolve evils caused by masculine supremacy. She regarded the feminine nature as the creative intuition including the transcendental, mystic power to embrace the self-righteousness and egotism of the male. When the individual learns to cultivate both masculine and feminine sides in his mind, he becomes with integrity. Wholeness integration of the personality - is the ultimate goal. The symbol Woolf uses to represent this ideal state, is the androgynous mind, the mind in which masculine and feminine elements attain a perfect balance. Family life and society also become ideal, when the opposites are well harmonized. Accordingly, Woolf's concerns and criticism with the feminine problems came from a desire to seek for wholeness.
Woolf combined and resolved her social conscience, her recognition of the nature of womanhood, and the aesthectic vision, the delicate symbolism and poetic prose, forming into a good art.
Woolf showed, in Night and Day (1919), that woman desired for freedom from patriarcal family institution and made efforts to search for the full development, wholeness within individual through her intuitive vision and love. In To the Lighthouse (1927), Woolf emphasized that woman played a special role as a wife in her relation with husband in a family life, and had visionary power of her soul civilizing the brutal sterility of men to create the perfectly harmonious life. In The Years (1937), the author expressed woman's social insight which recognized hopeful social vision in the midst of the confused and desolate condition of society caused by excessive virility.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the nature of womanhood and woman's vision in Woolf's novels. The resu1ty of the study makes a contribution to understanding of Woolf's peculiar reality and her vision of whole life.논문개요 = ⅳ
Ⅰ. 서론 = 1
Ⅱ. 본론 = 9
1. Night annd Day에 나타난 여성의 개인 완성의 역할 = 9
2. To the Lighthouse에 나타난 가정에서의 여성의 화합적 역할 = 33
3. The Years에 나타난 여성의 사회 통찰적 역할 = 54
Ⅲ. 결론 = 73
참고문헌 = 80
ABATRACT = 8
Bodily Territories: Lust, Landscape and the Struggle for Female Space in Woolf's The Voyage Out and Atwood's Surfacing
No full textIn her lengthy critical essay A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf inquires into the absence of the female genius in the literary canon. As she mourns this lack of feminine representation on her own bookshelves—“looking about the shelves for books that were not there”—Woolf questions the opposition between what she refers to as the lyrically “suggestive” female sentence, and the dominant, subject driven, “I” of the male sentence (AROO, 45, 98). Woolf carves out a creative space for feminine narrative and focuses primarily on the landscape that is dominated by the “I”. This “I” representing both the masculine epic narrative and a metaphorical phallus, obliterates the surrounding landscape of the novel. This landscape signifies the role of women in literature; ever present, yet, not at the forefront, or well developed. In A Room of One’s Own, Woolf encounters a masculine text with palpable disdain. As her hypothetical villain “Mr. A.” composes a novel that serves as an example of the metaphorical dominant signifier “I”, Woolf, with desperation, attempts to see beyond the “I” and to read the landscape behind: “But after reading a chapter or two a shadow seemed to lie across the page. It was a straight dark bar, a shadow shaped something like the letter “I”. One began dodging this way and that to catch a glimpse of the landscape behind it. Whether that was indeed a tree or a woman walking I was not quite sure” (100). Because it represents the women that remain hidden in an opaque shroud of historical non representation, this landscape becomes territory for the modern woman to reclaim. This landscape, not merely a literary space, is metaphorically linked to the territorial claiming of the female body due to patriarchal domination. The female body manifests itself throughout literature as a blank canvass onto which future generations are inscribed. This body, much like the body of a literary text, insures immortality to the author. It is in Woolf‟s own writing that the landscape is at the forefront and it is the female body that she seeks to reclaim in her first novel The Voyage Out. Woolf unknowingly passed this torch, this desire to explore literary and bodily territory, to Canadian Author Margaret Atwood. It is in her second novel, Surfacing, that Atwood presents a thematically similar take on territorial struggles in the framework of modern marriage. Both women, though separated by decades of supposed feminist progress, reveal that marriage remains a game of territorial occupation.Graduate English Association, English Department, Georgia State UniversityPresented at Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2007, pp. 1-9
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