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Work #670 · Late

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf
1929 · English
Feminist literary essay · British modernist feminism

Woolf's 1929 foundational feminist literary essay — "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction"

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Attribute A Room of One's Own (Late)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency None
Observer · Moral Authority Experience
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

A Room of One's Own

The historical time of women's exclusion from literature.

Space

A Room of One's Own

Central — the room of one's own.

Matter

A Room of One's Own

The embodied woman writer.

Observer

A Room of One's Own

The woman writer seeking material conditions.

Energy

A Room of One's Own

Energies of women's creative-literary work.

Information

A Room of One's Own

Foundational feminist literary-essay framework.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

A Room of One's Own

A Room of One's Own foundational for modern feminist literary criticism.