dc.contributor.author | Frändberg, Lotta | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-02-19T12:56:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-02-19T12:56:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-02-19 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/35176 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this essay, I explore the concept of the real in Virginia Woolf’s autobiographical text A Sketch of the Past. My thesis is that the real here refers to a quality of experience, characterized by sensuous openness to the world. This quality of openness resides in certain moments in a life. Access to the real in this sense is therefore discontinuous rather than pervasive. For the analysis, I use the perspective and conceptual framework of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology and show that several aspects of how Woolf describes her experience of “moments of being” correspond to Merleau-Ponty’s description of perception as a phenomenal field: her insistence on the vagueness of impressions; her emphasis on how sense impressions are integrated in experience; the sense of flow and integration between subject and world; her strong emphasis on experience as embodied. I suggest that Woolf’s moments of being may be understood as a form of phenomenological reduction. | sv |
dc.language.iso | eng | sv |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | SPL kandidatuppsats i engelska | sv |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | SPL 2013-116 | sv |
dc.subject | engelska | sv |
dc.subject | Virginia Woolf | sv |
dc.subject | A Sketch of the Past | sv |
dc.subject | phenomenology | sv |
dc.subject | Merleau-Ponty | sv |
dc.title | When the Sealing Matter Cracks. The ‘Real’ in Virginia Woolf’s A Sketch of the Past. | sv |
dc.type | Text | |
dc.setspec.uppsok | HumanitiesTheology | |
dc.type.uppsok | M2 | |
dc.contributor.department | University of Gothenburg/Department of Languages and Literatures | eng |
dc.contributor.department | Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer | swe |
dc.type.degree | Student essay | |