The time being: on Woolf and boredom

Boredom is widely considered a subjective malaise best gauged in twentieth-century literature. Woolfs preoccupation with boredom is evident throughout her workparticularly Orlandobut comes to fruition in The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection. This story pits the perception of boredom as a form of self-affirmation against a rejection of the inherent dullness of continually acknowledging the self, a process elucidated via examinations of Heideggers visionary ennui and Levinass reworking of bored subjectivity. Additionally, Lady in the Looking-Glass participates in a relatively unexamined aspect of boredom theory: namely, the treatment of time as a spectre haunting the bored.