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The Story of Two Women: Dominique Aury and Edith Thomas
Edith Emilie Thomas was a French historian, novelist and journalist who was also a major figure in the resistance of the intellectuals against Nazi occupation. Dominique Aury was the author of the erotic classic 'Story of O', and was Edith's lover for a period. Tracing the story of these two women and the intertextualities of their writings over the years, uncovers the striking oppositions between them and the affinities that emerge in spite of and sometimes within those oppositions. (Quotes from original text)
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Final Curtain on the War: Figure and Ground in Virginia Woolf's \Between the Acts\
Virginia Woolf's final novel, written during the London Blitz, constitutes a figure and ground cognitive problem as defined by gestalt psychology, but within the context of the relation of the \"real\" to the situation of wartime. Two major strains from Woolf s diary entries and letters written during the war, \"cognitive disorientation\" and \"reverse evolution,\" are gradually woven into the text during her revisions, the former drawing on theatrical discourse of war as spectacle and the latter drawing on anthropological discourse, specifically the narrative of evolution. The form of Between the Acts is a series of shining planes of figure and ground between the acts of the play within the novel and between the events in the lives of the characters watching the play. The collapse of these two planes into each other at the end questions the ontological status of the book's closure and cultural myths about the primordial, the \"reality of war,\" and the place of the artist and woman in wartime.
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