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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Correia, Marta Pereira Ferreira

Titel

Virgínia Woolf's Three Guineas: The Past, the Present and into the Future

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Three Guineas (1938) is Virginia Woolf’s most controversial work due to the themes it addresses and the angry tone in which it was written. Negative and positive reactions to this essay are amply documented and reflect the intended polemical nature of the text. The past of the essay, the background from where it arose, involves looking at history through Woolf’s eyes, the effects World War I had in her life and later the violent 1930’s in Europe which would lead to World War II, the rise of Fascism and the Spanish Civil War. The present of the text is twofold: it is the text itself, but also ideas discussed by contemporary scholars, which bring Three Guineas into our time. The use of anger as a productive force for a woman writer, the significance of both the printed pictures which accompany the essay and the ones that are simply, but insistently, referred to throughout the whole essay and the structures of power which promote and incite war are some of such topics. The future of the text focuses on the context of the war in the former Yugoslavia, which is strikingly similar to the one Virginia Woolf experienced in the 1930’s. Out of the destruction created by the bloody conflict in the Balkans, a group of pacifists started their work. Women in Black Belgrade, their principles and constant resistance give Three Guineasan application for the future and reveal how Woolf’s insights are valid to this day and continue to be a source of inspiration for those who fight against inequality and war.