Autobiographical Elements in Behn’s Oroonoko,Shelley’s Frankenstein and Woolf’s Orlando
Makaleler > Derleme · 2019
Yazarlar: Sinem ÇAPAR İLERİ
Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, SCI Expanded İndekslerine Giren Dergi, Uluslararası, Scopus, 2019, cilt 7, ss 91-97
Özet
<p> </p><div class="page" title="Page 101"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">Biographies are classified as diverse kinds of the genre that is combined with various elements. Aphra Behn</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">’</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">s </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-style: italic">Oroonoko, </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">Mary Shelley</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">’</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">s </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-style: italic">Frankenstein </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">and Virginia Woolf</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">’</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">s </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-style: italic">Orland</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">o Aphra Behn becomes the first professional woman writer, Mary Shelley is considered to be the foremother of science fiction and gothic genre, finally pioneer feminist writer Virginia Woolf created a fictional, gender-bending biography that paid tribute to the British literature. These three significant women writers have become pioneers throughout three centuries. This article reviews the autobiographical elements in Behn</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">’</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">s </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-style: italic">Oroonoko </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">(1688), Shelley</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">’</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">s </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-style: italic">Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">(1818) and Woolf</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">’</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">s </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-style: italic">Orlando </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">(1928) considering the sociocultural backgrounds of each period in Britain as well as regarding the </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">authors’ </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">contributions to the British literary canon. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">Keywords: Aphra Behn, Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf, women writers, autobiography </span></p> </div> </div> </div>