Deep in essay hell
I feel sorry for the tutor faced with marking umpteen six/eight thousand-word essays in ten days time. I feel sorrier for myself, however, for having to write it.
It's for the dreaded "Feminist Literary Theory course. Nuff sed. I'm looking at Virginia Woolf and Winifred Holtby in terms of their relationship with the past, and specifically the literary past.
Thankfully the book the university library had only one copy of, Holtby's Women and a Changing Civilisation arrived (via Amazon) from the US fifteen days earlier than it had been promised. I have thoroughly enjoyed it - balanced, rational, well-researched. It's a feminist polemic, like A Room of One's Own, but much less precious than Dear Virginia.
Holtby refers to "the population problem" and also to Marie Stopes, with approval. Does that mean she had eugenicist leanings? I do hope not. She is so much more interested in a woman's right to work on equal terms and for equal pay than in the provision of a room and a comfortable income to the talented few.
I am also expected to look at Orlando in connection with South Riding, which is interesting mainly because they have so little in common as novels. It's interesting that Woolf was writing A Room of One's Own more or less at exactly the same time as Orlando - she seems to consider novels as the greatest form of modern literature while writing an anti-novel.
I'm wittering. I may also be either absent or spamming over the next few days - be warned. My brane hurtz already.
It's for the dreaded "Feminist Literary Theory course. Nuff sed. I'm looking at Virginia Woolf and Winifred Holtby in terms of their relationship with the past, and specifically the literary past.
Thankfully the book the university library had only one copy of, Holtby's Women and a Changing Civilisation arrived (via Amazon) from the US fifteen days earlier than it had been promised. I have thoroughly enjoyed it - balanced, rational, well-researched. It's a feminist polemic, like A Room of One's Own, but much less precious than Dear Virginia.
Holtby refers to "the population problem" and also to Marie Stopes, with approval. Does that mean she had eugenicist leanings? I do hope not. She is so much more interested in a woman's right to work on equal terms and for equal pay than in the provision of a room and a comfortable income to the talented few.
I am also expected to look at Orlando in connection with South Riding, which is interesting mainly because they have so little in common as novels. It's interesting that Woolf was writing A Room of One's Own more or less at exactly the same time as Orlando - she seems to consider novels as the greatest form of modern literature while writing an anti-novel.
I'm wittering. I may also be either absent or spamming over the next few days - be warned. My brane hurtz already.