Narratives on the Body Session Four
Agenda Virginia Woolf, Orlando. Ch. IV – the end Biography and the biographer Cultural history: body – identity – the spirit of the age Sally Potter, Orlando
Virginia Woolf, Orlando: Sex, nature, ethnicity, class The end of chapter III: Orlando’s stay with the gipsies Sex: female / gender: male Ethnicity, nationality: Englishman / gipsy Class: nobility / nomad Nature – culture
Virginia Woolf, Orlando: Sex, nature, ethnicity, class A third place? Culture Nature Male female Nobility nomad Civilised primitive Sex gender Nationality ethnicity Class Good bad Androgyny
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 Chapter Six) Parody, selfconsciousness, metafiction
Orlando: Body, Identity, and the spirit of the age. The story of the ring (pp , Chapter Five)
Sally Potter, Orlando Novel / film Novel: narrative, language (writing): temporality Film: narrative, language (speech), music, moving images: temporality and spatiality
Sally Potter, Orlando Orlando’s sex change (the masque) A third place? The biographer, self-consciousness parody, metafiction Body, identity, and the spirit of the age