- Virginia Woolf's MRS. DALLOWAY: A Very Close Reading
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In this course I plan to adopt a different approach to reading and understanding this remarkable novel. The class will focus on a close reading and analysis of the text itself. We will look at MRS. DALLOWAY as a self-contained and self-referential entity, discovering the novel's meaning through careful examination of its language, structure, and imagery. We will deliberately ignore the use of information that is outside the text as a means to understanding the text; therefore, the author’s biography or historical context will not matter when we are interpreting MRS. DALLOWAY. Read any edition, but ignore prefaces, introductions, and additional notes. In the final class, we can address Virginia Woolf's fascinating life and historical milieu.
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