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Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Vision
Claudia OlkEmily 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
PreviewThis 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 ...
Mark HusseyEncyclopedia 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, ...
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
Lorraine Simexpression 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
Hans RockenwagnerReading 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 ...
Mark HusseyDeborah 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: ...
Tobias NahrwoldFeminism 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 ...
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
C. ReynierBenzel, 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 ...
An Apple a Day: A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia
Emma WoolfAddicted to hunger, exercise and control, she was juggling a full-blown eating disorder with a successful career, functioning on an apple a day.
A study guide for Virginia Woolf's "Orlando"
Gale, Cengage LearningBrown, 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
Mark HusseySeven new articles on Virginia Woolf, including archival material from King's College London; book reviews.
Virginia Woolf
Hermione LeeThis 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
Karen L. LevenbackIn 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
Alex ZwerdlingDiscusses the influence of historical events, politics, and social movements on Woolf's fiction, describes her ideology, and examines her major works
Double Cross
Ann RuffellAnt is obsessed by two things - motocross and Emma. But before he could get the chance to tell her, Emma starts going out with Dave, Ant's best mate. Ant is devastated but he has a plan to make Emma see that she's gone for the wrong biker.
The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf
Sue RoeComprehensive study by leading scholars of Virginia Woolf and her novels, letters, diaries and essays.
A Writer's Diary
Virginia WoolfAn 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.
The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf
PreviewA collection of essays on the juvenilia of famous authors including Austen, the Brontës, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf.
Lesbian Subjects: A Feminist Studies Reader
PreviewElizabeth 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 ...
Moan: Anonymous Essays on Female Orgasm
Emma KoenigIn this book inspired by Emma Koenig's wildly popular website, a diverse collective of women do just that. Emma Koenig was inspired to answer this question after a truly frustrating sexual experience with a partner.
Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary ...
PreviewDaniel 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 ...
Virginia Woolf, the Novels
Nicholas MarshMaking use of detailed analysis of selected extracts from the novels, the reader is taught to explore the delicate and yet rich writing Woolf achieved and to enquire into the significance of her ironies and symbolic structures.
Woolf Studies Annual
More editionsAbove all, let us have new editions that unfold for us the wonderful history of their writing — a transformation that may at last carry Cinderella to the ball! — Julia Briggs, De Montfort University Virginia Woolf and the Visible World Emily Dalgarno ...
Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Vision
Claudia OlkModernist texts, particularly the works of Virginia Woolf, turn towards vision to explore new ways of seeing and aesthetic experience.
Virginia Woolf and the Migrations of Language
Emily DalgarnoIn this in-depth study of Woolf and European languages and literatures, Emily Dalgarno opens up a rewarding new way of reading her prose.
Virginia Woolf and the Visible World
Emily DalgarnoDalgarno examines Woolf's engagement with notions of the visible.
The Waves
Virginia WoolfIt hardly features at all, for example, in Alex Zwerdling's classic account of Virginia Woolf and the Real World. 'Conversation, observable action, setting, circumstantial reality of every kind have been virtually eliminated,' Zwerdling comments.19 ...
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