dc.contributor.author	Antonoff, Micheal Scott
dc.date.accessioned	2023-05-15T17:07:56Z
dc.date.available	2023-05-15T17:07:56Z
dc.date.issued	2023-04-11
dc.identifier.other	509aea47-a774-4e69-80ff-e0e8e65b6ed7	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10428/6668
dc.description.abstract	This study attempts to answer a question at the core of Modernist thought: what is the self? Specifically, this study examines state apparatuses within two novels by Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway and The Waves. This analysis discusses how state apparatuses destabilize and call into question the existence of identity in the novels. Identity refers to “the sameness of a person or thing at all times or in all circumstances; the condition of being a single individual; the fact that a person or thing is itself and not something else; individuality; personality” (“Identity, n2”). Forced societal expectations via state apparatuses prompt characters to conform to standardized and repressive modes of behavior. The characters’ expected societal roles differ from their interior, unfulfilled desires. This dissonance, between expected behavior and desired behavior, creates problems within characters throughout these novels. Furthermore, characters in these novels constantly view themselves through the repressive gaze of prevailing ideologies and thereby experience mental strife. Essentially, I argue that anxiety signifies state apparatuses undermining the idea of a stable identity. If fear makes up part of the self, then what is the self exactly? Keywords: Absence, Althusser, Identity, State Apparatus, Woolf	en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents	Chapter I: INTRODUCTION 1 Chapter II: THE FAMILIAL APPARATUS AND IDENTITY’S DESTABILIZATION IN MRS DALLOWAY 19 Chapter III: THE SCHOLASTIC APPARATUS AND IDENTITY’S DESTABILIZATION IN THE WAVES 43 Chapter IV: CONCLUSION 60 WORKS CITED AND CONSULTED 62	en_US
dc.format.extent	1 electronic document and derivatives, 71 pages	en_US
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dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.rights	This dissertation is protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States (Public Law 94-553, revised in 1976). Consistent with fair use as defined in the Copyright Laws, brief quotations from this material are allowed with proper acknowledgement. Use of the materials for financial gain with the author's expressed written permissions is not allowed.	en_US
dc.subject	Academic theses	en_US
dc.subject	English literature	en_US
dc.subject	Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941	en_US
dc.title	They Have No Face: State Apparatuses and Identity's Absence in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and The Waves	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Department of English of the College o Humanities and Social Sciences	en_US
dc.description.advisor	Thompson, Theresa
dc.description.committee	Williams, Marty
dc.description.committee	James, Christine
dc.description.degree	M.A.	en_US
dc.description.major	English	en_US