Metrics
1 File views/ downloads
39 Record Views
Thesis
THE VISION MUST BE PERPETUALLY REMADE
University of West Florida
Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida
2009
Abstract
Despite the canonized status of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse as a quintessential modernist novel, I found the novel frequently reassesses what has come to be accepted as the modernist standards of visual agency throughout the narrative. This play on multiperspectival visuality becomes increasingly fractured and decentered as the novel shifts between character point of views and slips from one diegetic level to another, effecting a deconstruction of the classic (and highly patriarchal) account of visual subjectivity. In de-privileging the modernist agencies in phallocentric sight, the text fuses a visual and textual play informed by postmodern tenets, thereby opening a feminist visual space that challenges the monolithic visuality subsequent criticism has erected around both modernism and Woolf's novel.
Details
- Title
- THE VISION MUST BE PERPETUALLY REMADE
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Publisher
- University of West Florida
- Format
- text
- Identifiers
- 99380090833406600
- Academic Unit
- English
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Master of Arts (MA)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida