ENG 335 - Virginia Woolf (1)

How does Virginia Woolf, the iconic experimental writer of A Room of One’s Own, Orlando, To the Lighthouse and other brilliant texts, continue to shake up our world? How do her essays and novels transform our expectations of a novel-and transform us? As a writer, groundbreaking critic, and genius of pacifist and feminist thought, Woolf makes us think, makes us wonder, and dazzles us with her words. Each of her novels and essays re-invent writing, raising new questions and experimenting with new forms. How does she capture all of life in one day in London in Mrs. Dalloway? How does she turn questions into epiphanies about grief and creativity in To the Lighthouse? How does she rock gender expectations in her fantastical romp through history and convention in Orlando? The course is taught by a former President of the International Virginia Woolf Society who will share research videos of Woolf sites as well as oddball films from the London Film Society circa 1920s and 1930s. The course will invite quest speakers from the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and the IVWS. We will play around with podcasts, art, and creative projects as ways to present our research, as well as traditional academic presentations and papers. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W), or ENG 201, ENG 202, or ENG 215. Alternate years.
(Humanities) (Intercultural Literacy Encounter) (Writing Encounter)