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To be honest, this essay was not revolutionary to me as someone who has been actively consuming post-modern feminist ideology for most of my life…. but that is because Virginia Woolf is quite literally blocks of the foundation of post-modern feminism. And I thoroughly enjoyed reading through her lecture—it felt very pure and clear to read it from the source. It was devoid of the muddling that can often come with decades and decades of think-pieces and counter-arguments. Overall, if you are new to the idea of feminism within art, I would highly recommend reading this once, and if you are not new to it, I hope you take the time to read it as it feels very refreshing and centering. Even after 100 years, Woolf remains relevant (which can sometimes feel both encouraging and discouraging).

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dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Virginia Woolf writes like osmosis. While all writers distort reality through their respective perceptions, the narrator internalizes perpeptions like a dialysis machine, a glorification of subjectivity.

This style of expression is overwhelming at times. The narrator follows the each resulting thought and the resulting thoughts it sets off, like an electrical impulse to and fro, across the nervous system. Alas, the theme of this essay is ostensibly "women and fiction". Retrospectively it seems nearly dishonest to disregard any of the ramnifications of Mary Seton's brownian thoughts and conclusions as uneccessary to the purpose of the essay, if truthfully we wish to pursue its theme.

Such a general and all-encompassing theme, one can treat it with objectivity only at the end of a lifetime, if then. Is it not then more honest in practice to approach it fully subjectively and not go one step further? Where are women and fiction? Inside, outside, at the library, on the street, the fictions we grow into, the ones we create, the ones we have created, the ones created about us, beliefs, reasons - Mary Seton takes each of them into consideration.

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challenging informative slow-paced

2.5

I don't love the writing style, but I don't hate it either. I kind of like it. I like stream of consciousness, pure, raw unfiltered thoughts but it also feels like they must've paid by the letter in the olden days :/

Virginia Woolf said nonbinary lesbian rights also Ginny girlie you would've loved Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema by Laura Mulvey.

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