Notes on Virginia’s Childhood

The Citizens of Morley College

“…Such disconnected fragments will these eight lectures be: to people who have absolutely no power of receiving them as part of a whole, & applying them to their proper ends." 60 If Virginia Woolf failed to grasp the purpose of Morley College, the young Gustav Holst understood it entirely, but Holst came from a very different social bracket than Woolf's. Like Emma Cons, Holst was from an emigrant, Continental, musical family-his father was a music teacher and composer, descended from generations of music teachers and composers.…”

Post-Impressionist Paintings and Parallel Structure in <i>Mrs. Dalloway</i>

“…Influenced by post-impressionism, she uses parallel structures in this novel to present the life of Clarissa who is the wife of Mr. Dalloway, a committee member with a high social position and the life of Septimus, a shell-shocked veteran. As she said, "I adumbrate here a study of insanity and suicide; the world seen by the sane and insane side by side" [2]. Through the parallel characters, Virginia Woolf presents different facets of life.…”

A century of reading time: From modernist novels to contemporary comics

“…Jacques Raverat seems to have anticipated this idea when, in a letter to Virginia Woolf, he argued that writing was "essentially linear"; Quentin Bell summarized his thoughts, stating that Raverat claimed the only way a writer could achieve the simultaneity enjoyed by painters would be through "some graphic expedient such as placing the word in the middle of a page and surrounding it radially with 9 associated ideas." 20 The combination of images and narrative sequence means that comics combine both the linear, clock-like orientation of novels and the radial orientation of images, with the panels repeatedly breaking up the flow of the narrative. The result is a reading experience that emulates the tension between clock time and psychological time.…”