Week 10
She casts her best, she flings herself./ How often filings for nought! and yokes/ Her heart to an icicle or whim,/ Whose each impatient word provokes/ Another, not from her, but him;/ While she, too gentle even to force/ His penitence by kind replies,/ Waits by, expecting his remorse,/ With pardon in her pitying eyes.
Who is Coventry Patmore, Angel in the House
The style of writing made popular by Dorothy Richardson, James Conrad, and Virginia Woolf.
What is stream of consciousness?
You love us when we're heroes, home on leave,/Or wounded in a mentionable place./You worship decorations; you believe/ That chivalry redeems the war's disgrace./You make us shells. You listen with delight,/By tales of dirt and danger fondly thrilled.
Who is Siegfried Sassoon, "Glory of Women"
What had our mothers been doing then that they had no wealth to leave us?...If only Mrs. Seton and her mother before her had learnt the great art of making money...Making a fortune and bearing thirteen children--no human being could stand it...because, in the first place, to earn money was impossible for them, and in the second, had it been possible, the law denied them the right to possess what money they earned.
Who is Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Devout households in India often contained, and still contain, persons in the habit of kissing holy books.But we kissed everything. We kissed dictionaries and atlases.
Who is Salman Rushdie and Is Nothing Sacred?
What you love is not a woman, Romney, but a cause; You want a helpmate, not a mistress, sir, A wife to help your ends--in her no end. Your cause is noble, your ends excellent, But I, being most unworthy of these and that, Do otherwise conceive of love, Farwell.
What is Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh.
Well, that is exactly what dentists always do. Now, go on! Tell me the whole thing. I may mention that I have always suspected you of being a confirmed and secret Bunburyist: and I an quite sure of it now.
Who is Oscar Wild and The Importance of Being Earnest?
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?/Only the monstrous anger of the guns./Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle/Can patter out their hast orisons./No mockeries for them from prayers or bells,/Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,--/The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;/And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
Who is Wilfred Owen, "Anthem for Doomed Youth"
I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.
Who is Virginia Woolf, "A Mark on the Wall"
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Who is George Orwell and 1984?
Their offers should not charm us,/ Their evil gifts would harm us"/ She thrust a dimpled finger/ In each ear, shut eyes and ran:/ Curious Laura chose to linger/ Wondering at each merchant man./ One had a cat's face,/One whisked a tail
Who is Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market
My own! But what own are you? What is your Christian name, now that you have become someone else?
Who is Oscar Wild and The Importance of Being Earnest
In all my dreams before my helpless sight/He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
Who is Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est"
But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction--what has that got to do with ...? I will try to explain. When you asked me to speak about women and fiction I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what the words meant.
Who is Virginia Woolf, "A Room of One's Own"
We stood face to face for the first time five weeks ago, when I arrived at this posting. The Guardian from the previous posting brought me to the front door. On first days we are permitted front doors, but after that we're supposed to use the back.
Who is Margaret Atwood and The Handmaids Tale
She objects to the cowardliness which will trade upon a young, ill-educated girl's indolence, love of luxury, and mistaken notions of life; who knows her nature while she herself is kept in ignorance of it, and uses his knowledge to degrade her."
Who is Sarah Grand, "The New Woman and the Old"
Though so profound a double dealer, I was in no sense a hypocrite; both sides of me were in dead earnest; I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I labored, in the eye of the day, at the furtherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering.
Who is RL Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.
Who is William Butler Yeats and "Easter 1916"
It was a snail.
Who is Virginia Woolf and "A Mark on the Wall"
I who am poisoned with the blood of both,
Where shall I turn, divided to the vein?
I who have cursed
The drunken officer of British rule, how choose
Between this Africa and the English tongue I love?
Who is Derek Walcott and "A Far Cry From Africa"
In most cases, where honest intention and a belief in the excellence of an object exists, however out-of-date or obsolete it may have become, it is gracious and kindly to deal tenderly with it, remembering that what has stood the test of time, and carried out a high ideal, however imperfect, deserves some consideration and gratitude at the hands of all fair-minded people; and that feeling of fair play is the foundation on which so many of our most sacred and cherished institutions exist
Who is Lady Jeune, "The New Woman and the Old: A Reply to Sarah Grand"
"He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so dislike, and yet I scarce know why."
Who is RL Stevenson and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
A new Modernist style that shifts away from Victorian social realism that focused on the mind.
What is psychological Realism
Meanwhile his extraordinarily gifted sister, let us suppose, remained at home. She was as adventurous, as imaginative, as agog to see the world as he was. But she was not sent to school. She had no chance of learning grammar and logic, let alone of reading Horace and Virgil.
Who is Virginia Woolf and "A Room of One's Own"
Language as culture is the collective memory bank of a people’s experience in history. Culture is almost indistinguishable from the language that makes possible its genesis, growth, banking, articulation and indeed its transmission from one generation to the next.
Who is Ngugi Wa Thiongo and Decolonizing the Mind