Rethinking privacy and publicity: Reading the spatial reflections of gender through Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway

Begüm Sena ÖNAL; Zeynep TUNA ULTAV

doi:https://doi.org/10.37246/grid.918555

Makale detayları

Rethinking privacy and publicity: Reading the spatial reflections of gender through Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway

Yazarlar:

Begüm Sena ÖNAL | Zeynep TUNA ULTAV

Yayıncı:

Cankaya University

Ana Başlıklar:

Mimarlık

Dergi:

GRID - Architecture Planning and Design Journal 2021 Vol.4 Issue 2, pp.146-162

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

7/2021

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000468564

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2619-9556

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37246/grid.918555

Özet:

 

This article deciphers socio-spatial characteristics of the London scene in the early twentieth century. Analyzing excerpts from Mrs. Dalloway (1925), a novel written by one of the prominent modernist and feminist writers, Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), the literary space analysis aims to ascertain how the narrative elucidates the relation between assigned gender roles and spatial practices of the protagonist Clarissa Dalloway. Revealing the abundance of socio-spatial information hidden in literary fiction, the three-partite spatial analysis that examines Mrs. Dalloway’s living environment within the contexts of private (domestic) space, public space, and ‘internal’ space highlights new layers of textual meaning. Thus, the study exposes the spatial hints of Woolf that guide readers to understand the confined social position of a high society lady. Touching upon controversial issues that nurtured the private-public dichotomy, the study broadens the discussion of gendered space, discussing Woolfian space as a challenge to patriarchal codes. Excerpts examined throughout the article reveal that the author's critique on unequal power relations between men and women reveals itself in spatial portrayals in the novel. Therefore, scrutinizing Mrs. Dalloway allows rediscovering, reinvestigating, and rethinking privacy and publicity in the early twentieth century through modern fiction.

Makale detayları

Rethinking privacy and publicity: Reading the spatial reflections of gender through Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway

Yazarlar: Begüm Sena ÖNAL | Zeynep TUNA ULTAV

Yayıncı: Cankaya University

Ana Başlıklar: Mimarlık

Dergi: GRID - Architecture Planning and Design Journal 2021 Vol.4 Issue 2, pp.146-162

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 7/2021

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000468564

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

eISSN: 2619-9556

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37246/grid.918555

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Begüm Sena ÖNAL | Zeynep TUNA ULTAV

Yayıncı:

Cankaya University

Ana Başlıklar:

Mimarlık

Dergi:

GRID - Architecture Planning and Design Journal 2021 Vol.4 Issue 2, pp.146-162

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

7/2021

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000468564

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2619-9556

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37246/grid.918555