The Representation of Gender in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando
The Representation of Gender in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando
500 words before 3pm
Your goals are to:
- Demonstrate your thorough understanding of the critical texts about gender in literature
- Practice crafting arguments about rhetorical situation: historical/cultural contexts, audience, and genre.
- Develop some potential ideas for your RA essay
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Some advice for getting started:As you think about the ways that a particular audience responds to a specific tale, there are a few things you could focus your attention on:
- Specific emotions that readers experience at specific moments in the story (how is a word, an image, a plot twist intended to make us feel?)
- Reader’s identification with a character or situation (how is the reader invited to imagine themselves in the story and to what purpose?)
- Reader’s agreement/disagreement with specific values, principles, or other ideas (how is the reader invited to judge the characters and their actions?)
Your response should be at least 500 words (two double-spaced pages) long; discuss specific examples from your primary and secondary texts to support your main arguments. Upload your response here in a Word document.
