English Literature / Unit 19 ENL 1809 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Woolf as Critic
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The idea
Woolf's A Room of One's Own argues that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction," and imagines Shakespeare's sister. The critic Paul Fry, in his Yale lectures, treats it as a starting point for twentieth-century feminist criticism.
In practice
Money, a room, a lost sister.
Where people slip
Attribute the reading to Fry.
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