David Foster Wallace and Clichés
Martin Amis has claimed that ‘all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen, but clichés of the heart. When [he] dispraise[s], [he is] usually ...
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Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway' and the Economies of Intimacy pt. 5
This new interiority revolves around Woolf’s style of narrative in the novel. Chambers describes it as a ‘fluidity of atmosphere’: her narrative is one of a floating focaliser,...
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Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway' and the Economies of Intimacy pt. 4
By marrying Richard, Clarissa has maintained ‘the privacy of the soul,’ she has ‘escaped’ the destructive intimacy of Peter Walsh, but Septimus’ only ‘escape&...
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Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway' and the Economies of Intimacy pt. 3
Both equipped with their sexually charged weapons – Peter with his ‘large pocket-knife’ and Clarissa with her ‘scissors’ – the proceeding trivial dialogue is ...
