Questions - Group 2

 
The second group will be in charge of introducing Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Their main task is to justify the inclusion of this text in the Core Course, especially the sub-section entitled Order and Subversion. As usual, they will make a brief presentation answering three main questions:
  1. The title of the section of this semester is order and subversion. In what way does Virginia Woolf's text fit in the framework of this theme?
  2. What  metaphor does Virginia Woolf use to present her main ideas? How well do you think the metaphor might work? Could you suggest the use of another metaphor?
  3. What relevance would you see in reading Virginia Woolf's text? Does she bring anything new to the current debate(s) on the ways and means to improve society today?

 
All students are required to:

1° Read the first three chapters and summarize the main ideas.

2° Identify the premise of happiness-what makes man/woman happy-upon which Virginia Woolf bases her main claims. Would you agree with this premise? Explain.

2° Write a short paper for Monday, January 31, 2000, on the following question: "What is the importance of the narrator going to the British Museum (English equivalent of the Library of Congress)?  How does the trip fit in her strategy of bringing order or disorder? 
 


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