Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

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Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 6 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

Overview
  • This free course introduces Virginia Woolf’s last novel, Between the Acts (1941), with the aim of understanding how she writes about time, memory, and ideas about identity. It also considers why ...

Syllabus
    • Introduction
    • Learning outcomes
    • 1 Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
    • 1 Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
    • 2 Background of war
    • 2 Background of war
    • 3 What can prose fiction do?
    • 3 What can prose fiction do?
    • 4 Genre
    • 4 Genre
    • 5 Time and continuity
    • 5 Time and continuity
    • 6 Woolf and language
    • 6 Woolf and language
    • 7 Imagery and identity
    • 7 Imagery and identity
    • 8 The artist in the text
    • 8 The artist in the text
    • Conclusion
    • References
    • Further reading
    • Acknowledgements