Virginia Woolf's elegiac enterprise

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An analysisof Virginia Woolf's works lead to the formation of elegiac fiction in which scenes provide the reader distance and establish a framework of understanding of the nature of grief. Each of her earlier works were an experiment in this novel method of writing. There is a fusion of fictional segments called scenes which focus the reader and the protagonist in the search for identity. Her works may be classified as fiction-elegy that fuse elements of elegiac poetry into the novel.

Woolf, Virginia, Elegiac poetry, Elegies

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The novel as an absence: Lukacs and the event of postmodern fiction

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The 'Theory of the Novel' by Georg Lukacs offers an account of the novel form for an overall understanding of what takes place in postmodern fiction. The early work of Lukacs introduces the possibility that postmodern has the capacity to return individuals to a world in which events are still possible and that the postmodern novel can be precisely the place where the event takes place.

Works, Postmodernism (Literature), Postmodern literature, Theory of the Novel (Book), Lukacs, Georg

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The make-up of Jean Rhys's fiction

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The use of cosmetics in Jean Rhys's fiction of the 1920s and 30s suggests ways women can express and empower themselves materially and symbolically. Her characters use makeup to aesthetically call attention to themselves as well as enter makeup rituals that fail to provide needed consolation.

Portrayals, Cosmetics, Critical Essay, English literature, 1901- (Contemporary period), English literature, 1901- (Contemporary period), Rhys, Jean

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