{"id":11351,"date":"2024-04-23T22:50:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T22:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?p=11351"},"modified":"2024-05-02T17:26:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T17:26:17","slug":"into-the-heart-of-silence-human-agent-interaction-in-woolfs-between-the-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/into-the-heart-of-silence-human-agent-interaction-in-woolfs-between-the-acts\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Into the Heart of Silence: Human-Agent Interaction in Woolf&#8217;s Between the Acts&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This paper, accepted by the 33rd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf held at California State University, Fresno, explores the dynamic relationship between culture and audience in Virginia Woolf\u2019s novel&nbsp;<em>Between the Acts<\/em>&nbsp;(1941) as a shared experience between the characters within and the readers outside of the text. This paper investigates the culture-audience relationship as a striking historically specific example of human-agent interaction (HAI), particularly through the literary representations of artifacts like the paintings and newspaper, whereby characters encounter aesthetic, social, and political phenomena in a way that makes critical consciousness and agential thought possible, both characterologically and readership-wise. According to the research portal for the Human-Agent Interaction community (HAI-conference.net), HAI is defined as \u201cthe point where people shape their interactions with an object or technology as if it had purposes, motivations, or intentions.\u201d In using this idea as a framework to study Woolf\u2019s final novel, Oden&#8217;s paper investigates the ways in which Woolf models a kind of cultural engagement that reflects new subjective modalities made possible through technology and modernity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Graduate Conference Travel Grant<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Leanne Oden (English)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-24-grants"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11385,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11351\/revisions\/11385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}