Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1991

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Hokenson, Jan W.

Abstract

In their essays and fiction, both Virginia Woolf and Christa Wolf address epistemological limitations inherent in patriarchy. In A Room of One's Own, Woolf investigates the gendered roles of author and character in Western literature and literary tradition. In Voraussetzungen einer Erzaehlung: Kassandra, Wolf analyzes the history and repercussions of Western patriarchal social structures in aesthetics and politics. Woolf's Between the Acts and Wolf's Nachdenken ueber Christa T. and Kassandra enact literary transitions past a prescriptive epistemology, which categorizes all experience according to gendered preconceptions of reality, to a unified view of aesthetic experience. Moreover, critical response to their writing reflects an historically grounded shift in interpretation. Woolf's contemporaries were interested in stylistic and technical innovations. Critics writing after 1970 have focused chiefly on the epistemological implications in the works of both authors.

Extent

115 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1991.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FA00000927

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