Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
16th International IDEA Conference: Studies in English, Nevşehir, Türkiye, 24 - 26 Nisan 2024, ss.1, (Özet Bildiri)
Virginia Woolf, who marked the 20th century with her style and unconventional counter-stance, has two biographies. One of her biographical works is Orlando, a novel she was inspired by her close friend, the poet, and writer Vita Sackville-West. Her other biographical novella is Flush, which was inspired by the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Both biographies created by Woolf are based on her close friends, and they describe the transformation and change in her individual life. In Orlando, concerned with gender roles, fiction is presented through characters who disguise their gender. In her novel Flush, the theme is revealed through aspects of change in the point of view in which the story is narrated through a dog’s eyes. Although it appears to be a love story between Elizabeth and Robert Browning, at a deeper level, the novel reveals captivity, oppression, and restriction of freedom in the Victorian period. Using a dog’s perspective, Woolf exposes women’s constraints and subjugation, both in the Victorian era and in her own time. The main character of Virginia Woolf's work ‘Flush’ might be viewed as the epitome of Victorianism because it represents the tradition of anthropomorphism and serves as a disembodied portrait of his mistress. Establishing a new literary representation of a sensory world also serves as the justification for a modernist reconstruction of Victorian society. Based on these aspects, the present study aims to review Flush as an anti-speciesist narrative rather than a speciesist representation. It seeks to evaluate it within the context of anthropocentrism and anthropomorphism.