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Some might also find fault with The River as an ideological statement. The play found evocative power in its regular mentions of “Ophelia, who died because she lacked a vocabulary” and of Virginia Woolf??s suicide. Those references, however, combined with the play’s final image—a woman, satiated by a man, privately reveling in her own unclothed body—to present a worldview that would have seemed a bit naive even before midcentury articulations of feminism, and which verges on being downright retrograde...
...addition to writing about the Renaissance and Reformation, Watkins has also focused on historical figures who were considered outsiders. Among her scholarly works are a 1969 article on Virginia Woolf??s suicide and a 1971 article entitled “Observer New Haven: The Outsiders,” about Yale students protesting the New Haven police’s targetting of Black Panther Bobby Seal...
...Dalsimer’s construction, Woolf??s decision to become an author functions as a form of therapy. By finishing To The Lighthouse, for example, Woolf is finally able, in her own words, to stop “obsessing” over her mother’s death. In this way, Becoming a Writer gives credence to the idea that extraordinary talent can be an effective remedy for mental disease...
...evident from Woolf??s ultimate surrender to her illness, the catharsis she experiences in writing is not in the end an effective cure. In her analysis of Woolf??s later writings, Dalsimer exposes the limitation of Woolf??s work to positively affect her emotional state. By depicting Woolf??s art as an involuntary drive, Dalsimer shows that writing can distract Woolf from her pain without necessarily getting to the core of her illness...
Because she analyzes Woolf strictly on the basis of her own writings, Dalsimer must assume that Woolf??s account of her own feelings is always trustworthy. As a result, Dalsimer’s attempt to trace the psychological development that led Woolf from her childhood to, ultimately, her suicide is limited by Woolf??s own self-image and by her selective expressions of emotion. But Dalsimer’s skillful organization of Woolf??s expansive body of work and intelligent analysis of Woolf??s literature gives us a thoughtful, nuanced picture...