https://padlet.com/blankstr/fnm0l41riyrv Common Reading Canvas en-us 2017-09-28 23:39:09 UTC 2017-10-05 19:26:58 UTC hello@padlet.com blankstr https://padlet.com/blankstr/fnm0l41riyrv/wish/192298029 As one can see, Virginia Woolf's book "A Room of One's Own" makes it clear that Virginia Woolf was definitely a woman ahead of her time. Due to the societal circumstances of the time, many women did not have the motivation and determination to outgrow the norms in society based on gender back during this time. However, this isn't anything negative towards women, it was just the reality of the time. Even women with ambition had their creative ideas shut down by men at the time, so it was very inspiring to see Woolf challenge society during a time when many women did not.]]> 2017-09-28 23:42:20 UTC https://padlet.com/blankstr/fnm0l41riyrv/wish/192298029 blankstr https://padlet.com/blankstr/fnm0l41riyrv/wish/192298082 In my opinion, the most significant contributor to Virginia Woolf's effectiveness of her message was the fact that she was very aware of a woman's status in society back during this time. Woolf made sure that her writing wasn't to attack men, but in fact to attack the way society affected not only women, but men as well. With Virginia Woolf's ability to attack the system instead of who benefits from the system is more likely to induce change because she identified the problems. That combined with her sense of realism made the reader more likely to agree with her message due to the fact the reader doesn't feel attacked.]]> 2017-09-28 23:42:53 UTC https://padlet.com/blankstr/fnm0l41riyrv/wish/192298082 blankstr https://padlet.com/blankstr/fnm0l41riyrv/wish/192298104 As for my personal opinion of the book, while I appreciate the message Woolf was trying to portray, and I understand why this work is of such literary merit, it was a very uninteresting book and a chore to read. A lot of this has to do with the time period in which this was written, so I understand why it was like this. Virginia Woolf's use of very old and outdated English combined with the fact that her sentences would seemingly go on forever, this book was an extremely tough read. It is very hard to keep the reader engaged with a writing style like that. However, Woolf did an excellent job of getting her point across and there is a reason that this book is so critically acclaimed. ]]> 2017-09-28 23:43:05 UTC https://padlet.com/blankstr/fnm0l41riyrv/wish/192298104 blankstr https://padlet.com/blankstr/fnm0l41riyrv/wish/192298188 While I may disagree with the book choice for this common reading, I see the purpose of having a common reading for all ]]> 2017-09-28 23:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/blankstr/fnm0l41riyrv/wish/192298188 blankstr https://padlet.com/blankstr/fnm0l41riyrv/wish/192298270  "Throughout the 1920s, Woolf argued that the formal freedom of prose accommodated the unruly modern world. She celebrated the novel, to her mind the form with which women writers had achieved commercial and aesthetic success, as the highest form to which prose might be put." (Kopley, Emily. “Search Options.” Millennium Web Catalog, 15 June 2016, 0-academic.oup.com.library.lemoyne.edu/res/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/res/hgw063.) Kopley describes how Woolf was such an influential figure in advancing the freedom in which writers, especially women writers in the early 20th Century.]]> 2017-09-28 23:44:29 UTC https://padlet.com/blankstr/fnm0l41riyrv/wish/192298270 blankstr https://padlet.com/blankstr/fnm0l41riyrv/wish/192298310 "By introducing a writer as a character in her novel, Woolf created a figure with whom she could identify and gave herself a vehicle for commenting on the technical and aesthetic problems of her work in progress within its pages."-Virginia Woolf's The Years, by Grace Radin (Radin, Grace. Virginia Woolf's The Years: The Evolution of a Novel. University of Tennessee Press, 1981.)
Radin brings up a good point that I agree with because Woolf's creation of another character to portray her message allows her to give the reader a personal connection and example that Woolf herself might not have herself. Woolf's creation of another character opened up many possibilities.]]> 2017-09-28 23:44:56 UTC https://padlet.com/blankstr/fnm0l41riyrv/wish/192298310 blankstr https://padlet.com/blankstr/fnm0l41riyrv/wish/192298637 "In A Room of One's Own Woolf writes a personal criticism that does not compromise her privacy, that, in fact, conceals it even as it enters into a conversation with the reader which seems very personal."(Fernald, Anne. “A Room of One's Own, Personal Criticism, and the Essay.” Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 40, no. 2, 1 July 1994, pp. 165–189. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/441801?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents.) This article is an example of a professional criticism of A Room of One's Own, and in this, this snippet from Anne Ferland's review, she argues that Woolf does not compromise any of her privacy by criticizing societal standards during this time. This is similar to what Grace Radin says about creating another character to stray from any personal connection to Woolf.

]]> 2017-09-28 23:48:44 UTC https://padlet.com/blankstr/fnm0l41riyrv/wish/192298637 blankstr https://padlet.com/blankstr/fnm0l41riyrv/wish/192298663 "Woolf’s feminism does not only include her explicit feminist politics, but it also involves her concern and fascination with gender identities, and with women’s lives and their histories and fictions, which is also present in her works" (Ermens, Bregje. Gender Subversion in Virginia Woolf’s Works: Comparing A Room of One’s Own, Orlando, and To the Lighthouse. 15 June 2016, theses.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/handle/123456789/3646/Ermens%2C%20Bregje%204339037.pdf?sequence=1.) This is an ameteur criticism from Bregje Ermens in the form of an essay, and this is the most in line with myself because I too am not any sort of professional when writing about this work. Ermens makes a very important point by making it clear that Woolf's work was much deeper than what it seemed on the surface level. Woolf isn't only trying to preach feminist ideas, but she strives the contrasting ideas of gender roles during this time.

]]> 2017-09-28 23:49:06 UTC https://padlet.com/blankstr/fnm0l41riyrv/wish/192298663 blankstr https://padlet.com/blankstr/fnm0l41riyrv/wish/192298687 "with the wiles & warinesses of a woman of
the world, half sordid half splendid, not quite at her ease with us, yet
glad of a room where she can tell her stories, of listeners to whom she
is new & strange.(Woolf, Virginia. VW Diary - 20th May 1926 | Woolf Online, www.woolfonline.com/timepasses/?q=diaries%2Fvw%2F20thmay1926.) This is an example of a primary source, as this is a direct diary from Virginia Woolf back from May 20th, 1926. Her diaries show her raw, unaltered feelings at this time. This quote from Virginia Woolf shows her desire to have the freedom to express her ideas.]]> 2017-09-28 23:49:21 UTC https://padlet.com/blankstr/fnm0l41riyrv/wish/192298687