Thinking activity on " Orlando : A Biography

Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend, it is arguably one of her most popular novels: a history of English literature in satiric form. The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history. Considered a feminist classic, the book has been written about extensively by scholars of women's writing and gender and transgender studies.

Reading materials

1] Metamorphosis, space of desire in Orlando.

2] Speculation , imagination 

3] Orlando and Trans studies

4] Gender parody, Subjectivity, Instability of Identity

5] Orlando as quest for incandescence

6] The space between : Sexual ambiguity and magical realism in Orlando.

7] Fictional Biography


Answer the questions 


1] How you look on Metamorphosis, and space of desire in Orlando and " The third space" how it's define or narrate in  Orlando ?


2] Speculation and imagination literature can you define this term ? How it's represent in Orlando.

3] How you interpreted trans study's by special reference of Orlando ?

4] Are you agree with that in Orlando Instability of Identity ? And how you see the Gender parody and Subjectivity in Orlando.


5] Can you exactly define what is the quest of Orlando in a whole novel according to your reading ?


6] what is sexual ambiguity and magical realism ? With special reference of Orlando.

7] Can we say that it's fictional biography or it's really someone original biography. How you see that . give your appropriate argument to defend that is it fictional biography or not ?




Work Citation

1]  Adam, A. (n.d.). Metamorphosis of Space of Desire in Virginia Woolf`s Orlando. Retrieved June 28, 2020, from https://www.academia.edu/7296907/Metamorphosis_of_Space_of_Desire_in_Virginia_Woolfs_Orlando

2]  Speculations on imagination: Searching for Virginia Woolf in Orlando. (n.d.). Academia.edu - Share research. https://www.academia.edu/4090296/Speculations_on_Imagination_Searching_for_Virginia_Woolf_in_Orlando Webpage

3] Coffman, C. (n.d.). "Woolf's Orlando and the Resonances of Trans Studies." Genders 51 (2010). Retrieved June 28, 2020, from https://www.academia.edu/7533049/_Woolf_s_Orlando_and_the_Resonances_of_Trans_Studies._Genders_51_2010_

4] Parajuli, H. (n.d.). Gender Performativity in Virginia Woolfs Orlando. Retrieved June 28, 2020, from https://www.academia.edu/31146245/Gender_Performativity_in_Virginia_Woolfs_Orlando

5].  Piazzola, Christopher, ""She will be a poet[...]in another hundred years' time"| Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" as
a quest for incandescence" (1999). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 1446. 
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/1446


6]. Campbell, Megan Rebekah, "The sace between: sexual ambiguity and magical realism in Virginia Woolf's Orlando and Jeanete
Winterson's The assion" (2000).Retrospective Teses and Dissertations. 56.
htps://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/56


7] Castle, Jacob C., "Virginia Woolf’s Fictional Biographies, Orlando and Flush, as Prefgures of Postmodernism" (2016).Electronic Teses
and Dissertations.Paper 3158. htps://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3158