Developing a feminist autobiographical practice : an analysis of Virginia Woolf's Moments of being and Christa Wolf's A model childhood

David, Raquel (2001) Developing a feminist autobiographical practice : an analysis of Virginia Woolf's Moments of being and Christa Wolf's A model childhood. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

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Abstract

The intent of this research is to identify the ways in which Virginia Woolf's Moments of Being and Christa Wolf's A Model Childhood contribute to the development of a method in process for writing feminist autobiographical texts. The analysis of how Virginia and Christa provide critique of dominant autobiographical practices and feminist critique of authoritative cultural discourses aids in determining strategies that could be taken together and used in a feminist autobiographical practice. The theoretical approach taken in the analysis of Moments of Being and A Model Childhood combines feminist autobiographical criticism, postmodern theory, and Bakhtinian dialogical theory.

Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
URI: http://research.library.mun.ca/id/eprint/9139
Item ID: 9139
Additional Information: Bibliography: leaves 130-135.
Department(s): Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of > Gender Studies
Date: 2001
Date Type: Submission
Library of Congress Subject Heading: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Moments of being; Wolf, Christa--Kindheitsmuster; Feminism and literature; Feminist literary criticism; Authors, English--20th century--Biography; Authors, German--20th century--Biography

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