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Woolf's 'The Waves.' (Virginia Woolf)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 19940922
Author:Vandivere, Julie

An interpretation of the statement of one character in Virginia Woolf's 'The Waves' is presented. It is posited that the puns used suggest that gender is not the sole standard by which social position is based. The suggestion implies that gender distinctions must be made in relation to the situation in which the distinction is to function. The emphasis is placed on grammar and its construction and the symbiotic relation of these to reality.

While scholars have for some time pointed out Woolf's concern with subject construction and the construction of the world, they have not analyzed how ...

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