Critical Reading Journal: “A Sketch of the Past” by Virginia Woolf Student: Professor: Course title: Date: 1. What is the main idea, or thesis, you feel the writer is advancing. HINT: It will likely not be an obvious, single sentence. You will likely have to paraphrase it in a few sentences.
Ideology into Fiction: Virginia Woolf's 'A Sketch of the Past'
Vol. 27, No. 2 (Winter, 1994), pp. 175-195 (21 pages)
Virginia Woolf's “A Sketch of the Past”: Life-writing, the Body, and the Mirror Gaze. Martin's, 2000. Composed shortly after WWI together with an awakening female consciousness, Virginia Woolf’s 1929 essay A Room of One’s Own offers commentary on the strictures that have repressed artistic freedom and the nature of truth.
Virginia Woolf's notion of memory, outlined in her memoir 'A Sketch of the Past', destabilises conventional conceptions of the relation between past and present. For Woolf, memory escapes linear.
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