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Cunningham foregrounds his thematic concern, the juxtaposition and of purist and pragmatist concepts of art, as his novel's agenda.3 In the course the novel, he uses his fictional investigation of Woolf's aesthetics to position Hours within an ongoing debate about the nature and effects of art.
Dec 23, 2020 · The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist explains how Woolf turned an ordinary day in an ordinary life into a masterpiece.
Aug 29, 2019 · Cunningham describes Virginia Woolf, looking at a nest that holds a dead thrush on the ground in the garden: “She thinks of how much more space a being occupies in life than it does in death; how much illusion of size is contained in gestures and movements, in breathing.
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Nov 1, 1998 · With rare ease and assurance, Cunningham makes the two women's lives converge with Virginia Woolf's in an unexpected and heartbreaking way during the party for Richard. As the novel jump-cuts through the twentieth century, every line resonates with Cunningham's clear, strong, surprisingly lyrical contemporary voice.
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Jul 7, 2024 · Cunningham’s novel is a testament to the enduring power of Woolf's influence and an exploration of themes such as mental illness, the constraints of societal expectations, and the search for meaning in life.
Oct 7, 2020 · This aesthetic reflection lies at the core of the transposition that Cunningham makes in The Hours, and he even signals the prominence of world in his rendering of Mrs Dalloway. In Woolf’s novel, ‘ [people] love life’ reflects the protagonist.
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Michael Cunningham on Virginia Woolf’s Literary Revolution January 4, 2021 Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” is a revolutionary novel of profound scope and depth, about a day in the life of a woman who runs a few errands, sees an old suitor and gives a dull party.
