| CORINNENOTES |
| 20TH CENTURY HOMEPAGE |
| A review of To the Lighthouse. 1st Week essay. Looks at the "problem" in reading and relating to Virginia Woolf's self-proclaimed "elegy". Explores the 'lack' of a plot, the narratorial confusion, imagery and multiple perspectives, the journey motif, the importance of the sea and the lightouse, its 'narrow' range and the flaws of the "elegy". |
| Critical Commentary: "A Kumquat for John Keats". |
| Critical Commentary: "Brussels in Winter". |
| The Waste Land Notes. An overview and then a more detailed look at the major themes, imagery and symbolism in T.S.Eliot's "The Waste Land". (Not written for a tutorial, and therefore slightly flippant in places!). |
| A Room with a View Notes. An overview of E. M. Forster's A Room with a View . Looks at why Forster has been under valued as a "serious" writer - and explores themes, imagery, symbolism and character. Written by Sam Croucher (a.k.a. chicken-run-obsessed-luton-girl). |
| "You can't look into the soul as into a room"Maurice Maeterlinck. Discuss any literary depiction of self in the light of this quotation. Looks at Virginia Woolf's methods of presenting self in Jacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and The Waves. Explores the importance of Jacob's room, the evocation of the senses, the pervasive imagery of death, the adapted free indirect discourse of James Ramsey, multiple persepctives, echoes of the past, the individualism and connection of the characters in The Waves and the linking factors between the characters of Woolf's novels. |
| "It had jumped...it seems" (Joseph Conrad). With reference to the work of one or more writers discuss how and why the modernists experimented with their treatment of time/memory. Looks at T.S.Eliot's portrayal of time, predominantly in his pre-1925 poetry. Explores the modernist view of time as expressed in The Four Quartets, how Eliot uses tradditional markers of time, how past,present and future are linked, questions whether Eliot's poetry ever "begins" or "finishes",the importance of epigraphs with particular reference to The Waste Land , allusions to Anthony and Cleopatra and The Tempest in The Waste Land and Eliot's view of memory. |