http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/virginia-woolf Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:06:18 -0400 Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:06:18 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1961/unity-in-virginia-woolf-and-hannah-arendt-creating-reality-in-the-insensitive-and-inaccessible By Esteban A. Sanchez - Woolfian Scholars regularly denote the moments where Woolf’s characters feel inexplicably connected and inseparable from one another as representing the spiritual and mystic beliefs of their author. I want to reframe this notion, considering Woolf's moments of unity, not as a metafictional tool, but as a rebellion against the insensitive and inaccessible natural world. Wittgenstein's refutation of the linguistic contentions in Plato’s Cratylus will outline language’s relationship to reality and how Woolf rejects Platonic Forms. Woolf along with Hannah Arendt will consider thought... Thu, 22 Sep 2022 10:48 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1961/unity-in-virginia-woolf-and-hannah-arendt-creating-reality-in-the-insensitive-and-inaccessible http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1725/the-birth-of-the-creative-consciousness-childhood-spaces-memory-and-psychoanalytic-play-in-the-memoirs-of-vladimir-nabokov-and-virginia-woolf By Salman R. Patwary - I argue that the impression of this opening of consciousness for both Nabokov and Woolf, the moment that they realized they were sentient, alive, temporal beings in reality, represented a new birth, into a new creative cosmos, a birth into the realities that are available to everyone, but also others that are more hidden and subtle – the realities of the artist. Essentially, my argument is for this opening to happen to them in childhood left a deep impression, a branding and etching that allowed them to evolve into the artists that they became. Lastly, I argue that this opening of consciousness... Mon, 22 Jan 2018 08:51 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1725/the-birth-of-the-creative-consciousness-childhood-spaces-memory-and-psychoanalytic-play-in-the-memoirs-of-vladimir-nabokov-and-virginia-woolf http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1058/the-process-of-unity-in-virginia-woolfs-between-the-acts By Hayley E. Tartell - In Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts, Woolf raises the theme of a progression toward social unification. Through her analysis of repetition, milieu, and the audience’s shared state of distractedness, Woolf enriches her text by emphasizing process rather over outcome. Woolf’s text aligns with Kant’s notion of universal communicability and implies that the process transcends the effect of unity itself. By highlighting the potential for unity, rather than the actual achievement of unity itself, Woolf intimates that this unfixed process allows for the possibility of a stable... Thu, 23 Jul 2015 08:22 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1058/the-process-of-unity-in-virginia-woolfs-between-the-acts http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/923/the-drama-and-romance-of-suicide-in-mrs-dalloway-and-madame-bovary By Jessica N. Laird - Is it noble to take your own life? Across the ages there have been many different interpretations of the morality of suicide, leading many novels to portray and examine the act. In Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, a traumatized veteran Septimus takes his life rather than letting the doctors take him into a mental institution; his suicide is later remembered by the eponymous character as a beautiful way to die. In Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert, the titular character Emma Bovary poisons herself with arsenic in an attempt to end her life as a heroine in a novel would, leading to her departure... Sun, 12 Oct 2014 09:30 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/923/the-drama-and-romance-of-suicide-in-mrs-dalloway-and-madame-bovary http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/902/depending-on-distance-mrs-ramsay-as-artist-and-inspiration-in-virginia-woolfs-to-the-lighthouse By Ben Beach - Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse is a novel of artists and within its pages appear two characters who are clearly labeled as such. One artist is Augustus Carmichael, the poet who spends his days reclining on the lawn. We are told that his work meets with success after the war: “He was growing old...he was growing famous” (Woolf, 1927/2005, p. 197). Beyond that we know little about him save the few thoughts by other characters about him. The other labeled artist is Lily Briscoe, who spends nearly the entire book either painting or thinking about her painting. Everything in her... Mon, 09 Jun 2014 01:09 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/902/depending-on-distance-mrs-ramsay-as-artist-and-inspiration-in-virginia-woolfs-to-the-lighthouse http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/892/visibility-for-women-in-the-works-of-george-eliot-and-virginia-woolf By Emily Caliendo - When examining the works of both George Eliot and Virginia Woolf, many critics are quick to assess the credibility and quality of characters based on how they react to the external experiences they are faced with in their imaginary worlds. However, this way of thinking serves as an injustice to both authors. Rather than finding truth in what goes on externally in these imagined worlds and judging characters’ perceptions by their relative proximity, readers should instead understand that Eliot and Woolf’s works demonstrate that subjective experience determines reality. These authors... Mon, 28 Apr 2014 09:38 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/892/visibility-for-women-in-the-works-of-george-eliot-and-virginia-woolf http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/523/gender-and-unity-of-the-self-in-virgina-woolfs-orlando By Tristan Gans - The confluence of biography and fiction in Virginia Woolf's Orlando raises the question, of which the book is highly aware, of which genre facilitates the proper perception of the truth. As Woolf writes, “Life, it has been agreed by everyone whose opinion is worth consulting, is the only fit subject for novelist or biographer” (267).[1] In this book (there’s no point in defining it as novel or biography) Woolf has attempted to find truth through an examination of her friend Vita Sackville West, and has decided upon synchronicity as a more meaningful apparatus of illumination... Wed, 04 May 2011 08:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/523/gender-and-unity-of-the-self-in-virgina-woolfs-orlando http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/153/virginia-woolf-on-the-role-of-the-artist-in-the-modern-world By Natasha L. Richter - Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse follows the development of the painter, Lily Briscoe, as she strives to create a meaningful space for her artwork in an increasingly critical and unkind world.  Woolf’s stylistic devices, especially those employed in the segment, “Time Passes,” reveal her thoughts on modernity and on pursuing life as an artist in the modern world.  In “Time Passes,” Woolf breaks from her traditional literary form to forge a new consciousness for society and introduces the typographical device of the square bracket to write from the... Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:36 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/153/virginia-woolf-on-the-role-of-the-artist-in-the-modern-world