Virginia Woolf et Victoria Ocampo : deux écrivaines en miroir - De part et d'autre de l'océan

Details

Supervisors

Sábado Novau, Marta

Faculty

Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres

Degree label

Master [120] en langues et lettres modernes, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée: langues des affaires

Abstract

enVirginia Woolf and Victoria Ocampo agree on the existence of « male writing » and « female writing ». However, they differ on the writing process that a woman should adopt. According to Woolf, a woman, in order to write well, must not allow her hatred or bitterness, due to her experience as a woman living in a patriarchal society, appear in her writing. A cross-reading of the two writers’ works is necessary to highlight the different themes they discuss. Woolf and Ocampo address the issue of « women’s writing » through topics such as: the androgynous figure, literary genres and themes, literary tradition and motherhood. The aim of this dissertation is to show how the two writers, using the tools of their time, discuss the issue through their exchanges at a time in which the notion of « women’s writing » and a reflection on it did not yet exist. Finally, this dissertation attempts to show that both Woolf and Ocampo are part of the beginnings of the debate around the meaning of the term « women's writing » that will intensify in the future decades. KEYWORDS: Victoria Ocampo, Virginia Woolf, women’s writing, androgynous writing, literary genres and themes, literary tradition, motherhood