Narratives on the Body

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Narratives on the Body

• Session Four

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Agenda

• Virginia Woolf, Orlando. Ch. IV the end
• Biography and the biographer
• Cultural history body identity the spirit of
  the age
• Sally Potter, Orlando

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Virginia Woolf, Orlando Sex, nature, ethnicity,
class

• The end of chapter III Orlandos stay with the
  gipsies
• Sex female / gender male
• Ethnicity, nationality Englishman / gipsy
• Class nobility / nomad
• Nature culture

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Virginia Woolf, Orlando Sex, nature, ethnicity,
class

• A third place?

Good bad
Civilised primitive
Androgyny
Nobility nomad
Nationality ethnicity
Male female
Class
Sex gender
Culture Nature
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Orlando the role of the biographer

• The Preface
• The first duty of the biographer (p. 47. The
  opening of Chapter Two)
• This method of writing biography (p. 184.
  Chapter Six)
• Parody, selfconsciousness, metafiction

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Orlando Body, Identity, and the spirit of the
age.

• The story of the ring (pp. 165-68, Chapter Five)

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Sally Potter, Orlando

• Novel / film
• Novel narrative, language (writing) temporality
• Film narrative, language (speech), music, moving
  images temporality and spatiality

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Sally Potter, Orlando

• Orlandos sex change (the masque)
• A third place?
• The biographer, self-consciousness parody,
  metafiction
• Body, identity, and the spirit of the age