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THEMES  The struggle of writing Experiences in writing Limitations for woman writers The taboos for woman writers Men's constraints on women The definition of woman The profession of writing Other professions for women The future of women as professionals KEY WORDS Books Women Man Angel in the House Pen Ink Experience Profession Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf is addressing a group of women seeking employment in a workforce predominated by men. She speaks of the struggle present for all women writers, and that is to break out of the conventions society has for women- being pure, and conservative, and sycophantic towards men without a mind of their own. This is a mental barrier that she was able to break, with great difficulty, in order to incorporate her own voice into her writing. She was able to do so thanks to her financial independence, which allowed her to not depend on writing for a livelihood and allowed her to break conventions. Now that women will join the workforce, Woolf says that it is important to ask questions regarding what all of this implies, and how women are to behave once they are professionals, and to explore the individual voice that women will need to bring to their jobs. Virginia Woolf

Postmodernism is the sensing of the end of movements, particularly the modern movement. Modernism is characterized by the abstract in art for example, and by technology elsewhere. Postmodernism is characterized by the integration of commercialism, advertising, and cheap culture into people's character.  Fredric Jameson Other names for post-modernism are the "electronic" age or the postindustrial age. This suggests that the social system of postmodernism no longer obeys the laws of capitalism. Another argument is that postmodernism is simply more advanced modernism. Postmodernism has generally criticized the hermeneutical model of inside and outside, ideology and metaphysics. Other modern theories are that are disputed in postmodernism are: 1.        Essence and appearance 2.        The Freudian model of latent and manifest/repression 3.        The existential model of authenticity/inauthenticity, alienation/inalienation 4.        The semiotic opp

Woolf, Virginia. "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown."  Essentials of the Theory of Fiction . Ed. Michael J. Hoffman and Patrick D. Murphy. Durham: Duke UP, 1996. 21-34. Google Books . Web. 15 June 2012. This is an essay by Virginia Woolf, originally a speech she made it seems. Its tone is rather informal. Summary Writing an essay is tough. There is a notion of a character which haunts the writer until he is compelled to begin writing. It is crucial for the novelist to be obsessed with character. She ascribes ultimate importance to convincing characterization- that that is, in fact, the purpose of novels. The essay will explore: What "real" character means What "character" means Why young novelists fail to create characters We all "read characters". Woolf claims human character changed around 1910. There was a shift in human relations, a sort of liberation, around this time, which was reflected in all areas of life. Arnold

Gerard Genette is a French structuralist. Genette suggests approaching narrative as though it is a discourse (a discussion, or dissertation on a topic). He discusses time in relation to narrative in terms of order, duration and frequency of events within the narrative. Order In most works of literature the order in which events are related in the text is different from the chronological succession of events. Instead there are flashbacks or flash forwards. The story may go back and forth between relating events chronologically or achronologically.  Anachronisms may be repetitive if the event has already been related in the narrative, or completive if they fill in an earlier blanks in the narrative ( recalls ) or later blanks in the narrative ( announcements ). These anachronisms are used to enhance or create meaning in the narrative or foreshadow occurrences. There are variations on these, retrospections within anticipations etc. There are also achronic events, whic

The term chronotope indicates the relationship between time and space as expressed in literature. It is a term borrowed from Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Just as it is in physics, in literature too time and space are inseparable, and one cannot be described independently of the other. Indicators are used to describe the position in time and space within the narrative. We may regard the narrative as plottable on the axes of time and space. The chronotope can be said to define the genre of a piece. Different genres have characteristic chronotopes. We cannot directly and simply recognize the historical background upon which every text draws because chronotopes from different time periods became intertwined and co-influential. Thus it may be difficult to strictly define the genre of a text based on the structure of its chronotope. A work's relationship with reality can be deduced from the chronotope as well. The Chronotope of the Road Time and space as are tight