Significant Brit. Writers: Virginia Woolf
Calendar for Class Discussion & Exams ("Path 1")

"No one stands still. It seems as if we marched to the sound of music; perhaps the wind
and the river; perhaps these same drums and trumpets--the
ecstasy and hubbub of the soul" (90).
Jacob's Room (1922)



for pre-class "points for reflection," click on colored bar above day's readings

Date
Readings: Path I
Topics
T, 1-9

The Dark Places of Psychology
overview of course guidelines
Virginia Woolf's "Modern Fiction" (1919, 1925), PDF

  • course guidelines
  • format: sml grp discuss & report; roundtable
R, 1-11

The Bottom of Things
V. Woolf's The Voyage Out (1915), chps. 1-10
"Phyllis and Rosamond" (1906) in The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, 17-29
  • format:
  • mini-lecture: quiz-driven roundtable
T, 1-16

NO CLASS / TUESDAY CLASSES FOLLOW A MONDAY SCHEDULE, W24

  
The Voyage Out
R, 1-18

A Female Education
V. Woolf's The Voyage Out (1915), chps. 11-19
"Memoirs of a Novelist" (1909) in The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, 69-79
Maggie Humm's "The Women's March on London: Virginia Woolf, John Berger, Judith Butler and Intersectionality" (2017), PDF
  • format: sml grp argumentation exrcs
  • pre-class essay: Maya Aparicio
The Contours of Romance
T, 1-23

The Looking-Glass Smashes [class WILL occur via Zoom]
V. Woolf's The Voyage Out (1915), chps. 20-27
"The Mark on the Wall" (1917) in The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, 83-89
"The Evening Party" (c.1918) in The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, 96-101
  • format: roundtable discussion
  • pre-class essay: Hoku Chidester

Jacob's Room
R, 1-25

Following Hints
V. Woolf's Jacob's Room (1922), chps 1-5
assorted contemporary responses to Jacob's Room, Norton Critical 209-214
"Solid Objects" (1920) in The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, 102-107
"Sympathy" (c.1919) in The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, 108-11
  • format: sml grp whiteboard art; image analysis
  • pre-class essay: Kyle Davis
Jacob's Room
T, 1-30

These Chasms in Continuity
V. Woolf's Jacob's Room (1922), chps 6-10
T. S. Eliot, letter to Woolf, Dec. 4, 1922, Norton Critical 221-22
"An Unwritten Novel" (1920) in The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, 112-21
"A Woman's College from Outside" (1920; 1926) in The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, 145-48
  • format: Mad Lib exercise in pairs
  • pre-class essay: Zoie Denton, Kaylee Felix
R, 2-1

This Unseizable Force
V. Woolf's Jacob's Room (1922), chps 11-14
Judy Little's "Jacob's Room as Comedy: Woolf's Parodic Bildungsroman (1981), Norton Critical 229-44
Kate Flint's "Revising Jacob's Room: Virginia Woolf, Women, and Language" (1991), Norton Critical, 263-81
Edward L. Bishop's "Mind the Gap: The Spaces in Jacob's Room (2004), Norton Critical 303-15
  • format: roundtable discussion
  • pre-class essay: Morgan Haynie
Mrs. Dalloway
T, 2-6

Leaden Circles
V. Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925), 3-93
"Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" (1922; 1923) in The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, 152-59
warning: suicideal ideation

  • format: passage analysis exercises
  • pre-class essay: Lauren Heck, Eli Hochderffer
R, 2-8

What Was the Whirlpool?
V. Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925), 94-194
"The Introduction" (c.1925; 1973) in The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, 184-88
Kate Haffey's Literary Modernism, Queer Temporality (2019), chp. 2 (pp.31-48) [do not read until you have finished the novel, AND only read pp.33-48]
warning: suicideal ideation

  • format: roundtable discussion
  • pre-class essay: Hannah Hochheiser, Natalie Kovacs
R, 2-8
 EXTRA CREDIT: screening & discussion
7 p.m. / Marleen Gorris's Mrs. Dalloway (1998), 1h 37m [I'll be screening Stephen Daldry's The Hours (2002) later in the quarter]		  
To the Lighthouse
T, 2-13

Silent Conversations
V. Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927), "The Window"
"The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection" (1929) in The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, 221-25
  • format: sml grp research & report
  • pre-class essay: Shefali Mistry, Naomi Phillips
To the Lighthouse
R, 2-15

A Downpouring of Immense Darkness
V. Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927), "Time Passes"
"Lappin and Lapinova" (1938; 1939) in The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, 261-68
"A Sketch of the Past" from Moments of Being (April 1939 - Nov 1940; 1972, 1976), PDF
warning: child molestation

  • format: roundtable discussion
  • pre-class essay: Dana Rasmussen
T, 2-20

A Wedge-Shaped Core
V. Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927), "The Lighthouse"
"The Searchlight" (c.1930-41; 1944) in The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, 269-72

  • format:
  • pre-class essay: Adam Rimland
Orlando
R, 2-22

His Swollen and Violent Heart
Orlando (1928), chps. 1-3
"Gipsy, the Mongrel" (1939; 1985) in The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, 273-80

  • format:
  • pre-class essay: Isaac Ruddell
Orlando
T, 2-27

These Selves
Orlando (1928), chps. 4-6
"The Legacy" (1940; 1985) in The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, 281-87
Term Paper assigned (due Thurs., Mar. 21 at midnight)
  • format: sml grp argumentation excrs
  • pre-class essay: Payton Swanson
 
R, 2-29

Tailored Tenth presentations
  • format: tailored tenth
The Waves
T, 3-5

Unfinished Stories
V. Woolf's The Waves (1931), pp.7-72
"The Symbol" (1941; 1985) in The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, 288-90
  • format:
  • pre-class essay: Joy Tsai
The Waves
R, 3-7

What Lies Beneath
V. Woolf's The Waves (1931), pp.73-147
"The Watering Place" (c.1941; 1985) in The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, 291-92
  • format:
  • pre-class essay: Dean Weller
Mon, 3-11 thru Fri, 3-15 PAPER CONFERENCES
email term paper outline to Dr. M and everyone in your small group before attending one-hour workshopping of outlines

  
The Waves
T, 3-12 Beautiful Phrases
V. Woolf's The Waves (1931), pp.148-206
"Moments of Being: 'Slater's Pins Have No Points" (April 1939 - Nov 1940; 1972, 1976) in The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, 215-20
Bring to Class Dr. M's comments on your pre-class essay

  • format: sml grp concept analysis
  • pre-class essay: Alec West
A Sketch of the Past
R, 3-14

One Line
V. Woolf's The Waves (1931), pp.207-97
  • format: sml grp idea analysis excrs
  • pre-class essay: Clare Zianno
R, 3-21
TERM PAPER due at midnight
(send Word file via email)
 
UNUSED Penalizing Despair
V. Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925), 93-139

"The Widow and the Parrot: A True Story" (c.1920s; 1982) in The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, 162-69 		 

 


"Seated Woman with Wrist Watch" (1932)
Pablo Picasso

 


Dr. Paul Marchbanks
pmarchba@calpoly.edu