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Wall to Wall

Wall to Wall

Douglas Woolf

" In Wall to Wall Woolf's view is evocative and is very much his own. First published by Grove Press in 1962, Wall to Wall has been an underground classic for over thirty-five years, a comic and satiric masterpiece.
Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Vision

Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Vision

Claudia Olk

Emily Dalgarno's investigation into Woolf and the visible world applies a Lacanian reading of the mirror stage to Woolf's works. She examines vision and optics as forms of power and intends to show that vision in Woolf's works was ...
Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies

Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies

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This book is an invaluable guide to the body of criticism on Virginia Woolf. It includes comprehensive and insightful chapters on different approaches to Woolf, including feminist, historicist, postcolonial and biographical.
Virginia Woolf A to Z: A Comprehensive Reference for ...

Virginia Woolf A to Z: A Comprehensive Reference for ...

Mark Hussey

Encyclopedia of Virginia Woolf which includes synopses of her works, descriptions of each character, information on Woolf's contemporaries, explanation of literary terms, and place names in her life and fiction.
Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory: Sex, Animal, ...

Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory: Sex, Animal, ...

Derek Ryan

... have placed emphasis on Woolf's formulation of human communality through language and art: Lorraine Sim, for example, writes of 'a connective principle' in Woolf's 'pattern' which is revealed through art and society;2 Emily Hinnov claims,  ...
Virginia Woolf: The Patterns of Ordinary Experience

Virginia Woolf: The Patterns of Ordinary Experience

Lorraine Sim

expression in Plato's philosophy, and the manichaean model of soul–body relations that 'On Being Ill' critiques is most likely derived from Woolf's reading of Plato.27 Emily Dalgarno argues that Woolf 'wrote of Plato primarily as a poet and  ...
Rockenwagner

Rockenwagner

Hans Rockenwagner

Reading a novel by Virginia Woolf involves an element of `double reflexiveness': first, the reader's interaction with Woolf's words and what they describe, and second, the interaction of these words with the world Woolf perceived and ...
Virginia Woolf miscellanies: proceedings of the First Annual ...

Virginia Woolf miscellanies: proceedings of the First Annual ...

Mark Hussey

Deborah Straw Tea With Virginia: Woolf as an Early Mentor to May Sarton At various times in her 50-year career, poet, novelist and keeper of journals May Sarton has acknowledged Virginia Woolf as one of her very important influences.
From Victorian Gender Roles Towards a New Female Identity: ...

From Victorian Gender Roles Towards a New Female Identity: ...

Tobias Nahrwold

Feminism in Virginia Woolf's to the Lighthouse Tobias Nahrwold. 1. Introduction. “ Woolf has [...] been recognized as one of the most important and influential feminist writers of the twentieth century” (The International Virginia Woolf Society  ...
Ya! ; and John-Juan

Ya! ; and John-Juan

Douglas Woolf

The two novels collected here create a dreamlike vision of America where helplessness prevails and the actions of the sane seem tinged with madness.
Virginia Woolf and her influences: selected papers from the ...

Virginia Woolf and her influences: selected papers from the ...

Laura Davis

... Conveners 2) Woolf s Influence on Feminist Theory — Rounds 223 Debrah Raschke, Chair Debrah Raschke, College of William and Mary, "7b the Lighthouse 'Through the Looking Glass': Woolf 's and Irigaray's Metaphysics" Val Gough, ...
Virginia Woolf’s Ethics of the Short Story

Virginia Woolf’s Ethics of the Short Story

C. Reynier

Benzel, Kathryn N. and Ruth Hoberman, eds, Trespassing Boundaries: Virginia Woolf's Short Fiction, New York & Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Bernard, Catherine, “Virginia Woolf essayiste ou l'écriture sans pédigrée”, Virginia ...
A study guide for Virginia Woolf's "Orlando"

A study guide for Virginia Woolf's "Orlando"

Gale, Cengage Learning

Brown, Keith, “Virginia Woolf,” in Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism, edited by Paul Poplawski, Greenwood Press, 2003, pp. 461–70. DiBattista, Maria, Introduction to Orlando: A Biography, by Virginia Woolf, Harcourt, 2006, pp. xxxv– lxvii.
Woolf Studies Annual

Woolf Studies Annual

Mark Hussey

Seven new articles on Virginia Woolf, including archival material from King's College London; book reviews.
Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Hermione Lee

This is a vivid, close-up portrait, returning to primary sources, and showing Woolf as occupying a distinct, even uneasy position with 'Bloomsbury'.
Virginia Woolf and the Great War

Virginia Woolf and the Great War

Karen L. Levenback

In Virginia Woolf and the Great War, Karen Levenback focuses on Woolf's war consciousness and how her sensitivity to representations of war in the popular press and authorized histories affected both the development of characters in her ...
Virginia Woolf and the Real World

Virginia Woolf and the Real World

Alex Zwerdling

Discusses the influence of historical events, politics, and social movements on Woolf's fiction, describes her ideology, and examines her major works
The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

Sue Roe

Comprehensive study by leading scholars of Virginia Woolf and her novels, letters, diaries and essays.
The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf

The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf

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A collection of essays on the juvenilia of famous authors including Austen, the Brontës, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf.
A Writer's Diary

A Writer's Diary

Virginia Woolf

An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years.
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

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ALEXANDER DOUGLAS WOOLF, BA MPhil. Department of Celtic, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh. The Roll The record of the deaths of the following Fellows intimated during the year 1996-7 was not read at the Meeting. Dates indicate ...
Lesbian Subjects: A Feminist Studies Reader

Lesbian Subjects: A Feminist Studies Reader

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Elizabeth Meese I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. —Vita Sackville- West, Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf I lie in bed making up stories about you. — Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, Letters of Virginia Woolf I don' t ...
Hypocritic Days & Other Tales

Hypocritic Days & Other Tales

Douglas Woolf

Take the title story, for instance: it's a kind of improvised, Laurel-and-Hardy dance between a washed-up Saratoga horse jockey and his large, slow, uncommunicative son, both characters stepping lightly, in tandem, as they negotiate the boy ...
Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary ...

Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary ...

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Daniel Woolf, a historian of the early modern period, has also downplayed the notion of a revolution in historiography, a claim made most forthrightly by F. Smith Fussner.12 Most recently Woolf has taken exception to the emphasis placed on ...

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