TY - JOUR
T1 - Structure and anti-structure
T2 - Virginia woolf's feminist politics and "the mark on the wall"
AU - Ki, Magdalen Wing chi
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2010/6
Y1 - 2010/6
N2 - This article challenges the idea that "The Mark on the Wall" is an apolitical story, with Woolf trying to experiment with time, space and narrative structures. Arguing that Woolf fills her story with subtle political references (Troy, Charles I, South Downs), this essay offers a close reading of the text in the hope of examining Woolf's feminist pacifism and her critique of male logic and the Great War. Victor Turner's notion of "anti-structure" is used to analyze the narrator's choice of being "betwixt and between" the state of things, or being "neither here nor there".
AB - This article challenges the idea that "The Mark on the Wall" is an apolitical story, with Woolf trying to experiment with time, space and narrative structures. Arguing that Woolf fills her story with subtle political references (Troy, Charles I, South Downs), this essay offers a close reading of the text in the hope of examining Woolf's feminist pacifism and her critique of male logic and the Great War. Victor Turner's notion of "anti-structure" is used to analyze the narrator's choice of being "betwixt and between" the state of things, or being "neither here nor there".
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U2 - 10.1080/00138381003647590
DO - 10.1080/00138381003647590
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:77953593599
SN - 0013-838X
VL - 91
SP - 425
EP - 442
JO - English Studies
JF - English Studies
IS - 4
ER -