Destinée aux candidats préparant l'agrégation d'anglais, une étude du roman Orlando de V. Woolf, écrit en 1928. Ce récit hybride, qui relate la vie d'Orlando, né homme dans l'Angleterre élisabéthaine, puis devenu femme à Constantinople au XVIIe siècle, permet de s'interroger sur le genre, l'histoire ainsi que les identités individuelles et collectives. ©Electre 2025
Virginia Woolf's Orlando, a fantastic figure defying the constraints of time and gender, continues to fascinate. Woolf has us meet him as a young aristocrat in Elizabethan England, follow his loves, disappointments and ambitions to Constantinople where he becomes she, then keep on her trace as she traverses Enlightenment and Victorian London before arriving with a shock in the present of 1928 as an accomplished poetess of 36 years of age. This volume explores Woolf's queer approach to biography, her writing of history, and the politics and ethics of the text's treatment of gender, empire, race, class and identity - lending an ear all the while to its laughter, play, and musings on love, solitude, and literature. This mock-biography of Vita Sackville-West, which Woolf planned as an « escapade » and dashed off faster than her other works, marked an unexpected turning point in her career, bringing her commercial success and financial stability. Yet its soaring popularity in recent years would have surpassed all her expectations. If we return to it so often, it is perhaps because Orlando's constancy and metamorphoses make her story an extraordinary affirmation of liberty.
Paru le : 13/06/2025
Thématique : Essais et théories - Dictionnaire
Auteur(s) : Non précisé.
Éditeur(s) :
Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre
Collection(s) : Intercalaires : agrégation d'anglais
Contributeur(s) : Directeur de publication : Marie Laniel - Directeur de publication : Naomi Toth
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-2-84016-598-9
EAN13 : 9782840165989
Reliure : Broché
Pages : 266
Hauteur: 24.0 cm / Largeur 17.0 cm
Épaisseur: 1.5 cm
Poids: 376 g
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