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... Herman Melville Bartleby Virginia Woolf Mrs. Ramsay Lily Briscoe ...

.... In To the Lighthouse , I argue that Virginia Woolf practices a Nietzschean form of textual disappointment by holding out but then negating Mrs. Ramsay as the erstwhile heroine. Mrs. Ramsay, in contrast to her husband, seems to offer a redemptive (and suitably complex) version of subjectivity that any of us would want...

... This chapter offers a reflection on how we are directed along certain paths, often through the promise of happiness. It also explores how we are redirected by the threat of unhappiness. Drawing on Virginia Woolf’s classic novel Mrs. Dalloway , the chapter explores how in becoming feminist we...

... (or interpellated) to do. Bartleby’s famous line “I would prefer not to” is not a form of giving up on life but rather an expression of amor fati , an indication that he follows only his own preferences rather than the projections that normally dictate our lives. In To the Lighthouse , I argue that Virginia Woolf...

... knowledge. sensation consciousness violence killjoy This chapter offers a reflection on how we are directed along certain paths, often through the promise of happiness. It also explores how we are redirected by the threat of unhappiness. Drawing on Virginia Woolf’s classic novel Mrs...