Wednesday, May 9, 2012

woolf: A room of one's own

i was having a coversation with someone about this and i was told that i had a really good opinion and wanted to share it. this not exactly what i said but it is pretty much the same idea. Just as Woolf speaks out against traditional hierarchies in the content of her essay, so, too, does she reject standard logical argumentation in her essay's form. Woolf innovatively draws on the resources of fiction to compensate for gaps in the factual record about women and to counter the biases that infect more conventional scholarship. She writes a history of a woman's thinking about the history of thinking women: her essay is a reconstruction and a reenactment as well as an argument.

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