BLOG assignment for A Room of One's Own

Post by the morning of Thursday, December 3rd
Comment by the end of the day Frinday, December 4th


Please respond to one of the following questions about Woolf's A Room of One's Own. You may also write about any other aspect of the book, if you're so inclined.

1. Woolf begins her lecture by calling out the conventions and expectations for scholarly lectures, while simultaneously subverting them. How would you describe what Woolf is doing here? What kind of writing is this? And how does it differ from traditional academic discourse? Finally, what is the effect of the way she presents her ideas?

2. The central argument Woolf makes is that a writer, artist, or thinker needs a room of one’s own and money. Why is this her answer to the prompt “Women and Fiction?” How does Woolf defend this statement throughout her narrative? How does she evidence the importance of space? How does she show the importance of money?

3. Lorainne Sim asks why it is that, within the field of everyday life studies, women writers and voices have such a marginal presence when it comes to the question of the everyday, even while the concept of the everyday is so often tied to femininity. How does Woolf help us begin an answer to this question? Give specific examples.

4. Given your thoughts above, how is the everyday an important concern in Woolf’s work? How does she provide access to the everyday in ways that differ from or relate to works that we’ve read?