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Orlando. He Was a Woman.
‘Orlando is the hero who turns into a heroine, in a biography which turns out to be a fiction’ (Hermione Lee, ‘Virginia Woolf’)
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The I-Speak
Based on Isaac Asimov’s ‘I, Robot’ and ‘The Naked Sun’ I am wondering if the language machines speak can really be called “language”
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To the Lighthouse – Mrs Ramsay in Her House
In Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’ Mrs Ramsay and the house on the Isle of Skye are one character.
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The Storytelling AI
‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ is two. One is Arthur C. Clarke and the other is Stanley Kubrick. In this essay, I am interested in Clarke’s…
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Woolf Days in Cambridge Part 1
I’m in Cambridge this week, reading and discussing Woolf’s works and visiting the city
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The Quartet of Unity and Dispersion in ‘Between the Acts’
Virginia Woolf’s ‘Between the Acts’ could be read and imagined as a play. But what does this say about its characters, who are plain to…
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Truth, Fiction and 3 Women in ‘A Room of One’s Own’
In ‘A Room of One’s Own’ Virginia Woolf goes beyond the dichotomy fiction/nonfiction and gives shape to a form which defies definition and borders.
diana
I’m Diana, a lifelong book and literature enthusiast.
I’m a big fan of 20th century literature and women writers, but I don’t shy away from classics, contemporary fiction, nor from an intelligent thriller.