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Written towards the end of her life, long after Virginia Woolf had suffered from the outbreak of war, Between the Acts cautions critics who might be tempted to interpret the… Click to show full abstract
Written towards the end of her life, long after Virginia Woolf had suffered from the outbreak of war, Between the Acts cautions critics who might be tempted to interpret the novel merely from the perspective of war. Despite of not having feminist characters or explicit references to feminist ideas on the surface level, the work contains many patriarchal identifiers. The paper attempts to highlight these patriarchal identifiers using Fillmores Frame Semantics thereby highlighting the juxtaposition of patriarchs as well as matriarchs in the defining period of literature.
Journal Title: International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
Year Published: 2021
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