Showing papers by "Linda Hutcheon published in 1979"

Revolt and the Ideal in Bloomsbury

Abstract: One good justification for a study of revolt and the ideal in the sex and art of Bloomsbury-at a time when feminism and homosexuality are current issues-can be found in the public response to members of the Bloomsbury group' during their own lifetimes. Although the aim of their contemporaries' criticism ran the gamut from class to personality, from financial status to ideology, the major emphasis seems to have rested upon their art and their sexual mores. At first the relationship between these two points of attack seems rather startling, given the relative lack of explicit sex in the published works of E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, and Virginia Woolf-the three major writers of the group. Their books were never banned, as were those of D. H. Lawrence or Radclyffe Hall, yet critics such as Roy Campbell attacked them as both artists and as \"sexless folk whose sexes intersect.\" In The Georgiad, Campbell set out, among other things, to parody Virginia Woolf's Orlando with his own Androgyno, a \"joint Hermaphrodite-ofletters,\" complete with long blue stockings and a sexual metamorphosis. His multi-directional satire seems to be directed against Vita Sackville-West and also Woolf's androgynous literary creation, since he specifically calls his creature a \"new Orlando\" speaking with a \"Bloomsbury accent.\" However, the homosexuality of Bloomsbury in general also comes under attack;

"Snow Storm of Paper": The Act of Reading in Self-Reflexive Canadian Verse

Abstract: La participation du lecteur a la creation litteraire. L'A. analyse chez Page, Ondaatje, Avison et Atwood, la maniere dont la structure du texte et la metaphore se pretent a cet echange entre l'acte visuel et l'ecriture.