Virginia Woolf A Room of One’s Own ANALYSIS— Virginia Woolf’s Writing Style— 20th Century Literature

A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN by VIRGINIA WOOLF | Literary analysis of Virginia Woolf’s writing style in the opening of A Room of One’s Own (1929), including: the importance of “but”, the questioning mode of the text, Virginia Woolf’s insistence on the collectiveness of women’s writing, and that “all women together” should celebrate other women writers. Focussing on close reading Virginia Woolf’s very opening sentence. 20th Century Literature analysis.

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EXTRACT (opening line of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own)
“But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction—what has that got to do with a room of one's own?”

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[DrOctaviaCox]

Can you think of any other important “buts” in women’s writing?

[DrOctaviaCox]

Do you agree with my analysis? Let me know what you think. I’d love to hear from you.

[sheilakozmin]

Brilliant, as usual; thank you so much, Dr. Cox. I do have a book within me to write and I do have the time, money and space to write it. All that is missing is the confidence and the commitment. I believe I owe it to Virginia Woolfe to write my book without further procrastination.

[RaysDad]

Thank you, I understand A Room of One's Own more deeply now. My first exposure to Virginia Woolf was To the Lighthouse, which left me anxious to read more of her novels. But I couldn't stay engaged with either Orlando or The Waves. So I turned to her essays and maybe I've read them all. What a unique writer she was!

[rmarkread]

In Virginia Woolf's hand, those "buts" (and the addressing of a collective) pays the audience the supreme complement of including us in those whose intelligence and quickness of mind are equal to Virginia Woolf's own. Heady, high praise.

[Meg-htke]

Thank you for the intense and rich analysis, Dr Cox!

[saralundh]

you made my evening so much better. wonderful engaging video. keep it up 💖💖

[logingayn]

Cool, Dr., the explanation of the essay is exquisite and useful

[amherst]

Wonderful as always, would love to hear you work through more of the great wisdom of this work (and if you've never heard it, I highly recommend listening to Claire Bloom's reading of about an hour's worth of the text) -- thank you as always for sharing your expertise ❤️

[jadedavis]

College course on YouTube ! How very cool☺️thank you ...new sub

[angelacraw]

Thank you for this very informative lecture. I read and very much enjoyed the book and plan to re-read it soon with your thought in mind. As an aside do you know of any colleagues that have a youtube channel where they analyse the work of Proust?