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GPerissutti- Modernist Fiction. V. Woolf and J. Joyce - risposta domande pag 529
by GPerissutti - (2012-02-02)
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-The room has a symbolical values: in fact, a room of one’s own means a place for one’s solitude and, above all, a place where one i san individual ,before being part of community, or rather a person at the service of community, or rather a person at the service of a community. Woolf says that a room of one’s own and five hundred pounds a year are the fundamental requirements for a woman to be independent.

- Woolf considers writing fundamental to her existence and she thinks that to bea n artist means to have a perfect combination of masculine and feminine qualities, so she tries to solve the problem by adopting two different styles:one for her pieces of criticism and essays, which was clear, logical, concise ,”masculine”; the other for her works of imagination, which was poetic clear, transparent, flexible, rhythmic, ”feminine”. The main difference between these style is the degree of tension:it reaches the pitch of incandescence when she narrates and invents, while it is cold and dominated by reason when she wants to be detached.She has tried all her life to combine the male and the female into an androgynous mind:calm, stable, not touched by the consciousness of sex, but she realizes that this idea is utopian because it represents an escare from the confrontation with femaleness and maleness. In the sixth charter of A room of one’s own, Woolf deals whit her theory of the androgynous: she explains that in men’s mind the male part dominates, while in women’s mind the female part is dominating and the perfect state is that when the two live in harmony together, spiritually co-operating.