1. Narratives on the Body Session Four

2. Agenda Virginia Woolf, Orlando. Ch. IV – the end  Biography and the biographer  Cultural history: body – identity – the spirit of the age  Sally Potter, Orlando

3. Virginia Woolf, Orlando: Sex, nature, ethnicity, class  The end of chapter III: Orlando’s stay with the gipsies  Sex: female / gender: male  Ethnicity, nationality: Englishman / gipsy  Class: nobility / nomad  Nature – culture

4. Virginia Woolf, Orlando: Sex, nature, ethnicity, class  A third place? Culture Nature Male female Nobility nomad Civilised primitive Sex gender Nationality ethnicity Class Good bad Androgyny

5. Orlando: the role of the biographer  The Preface  ”The first duty of the biographer” (p. 47. The opening of Chapter Two)  ”This method of writing biography” (p. 184. Chapter Six)  Parody, selfconsciousness, metafiction

6. Orlando: Body, Identity, and the spirit of the age.  The story of the ring (pp. 165-68, Chapter Five)

7. Sally Potter, Orlando  Novel / film  Novel: narrative, language (writing): temporality  Film: narrative, language (speech), music, moving images: temporality and spatiality

8. Sally Potter, Orlando  Orlando’s sex change (the masque)  A third place?  The biographer, self-consciousness parody, metafiction  Body, identity, and the spirit of the age