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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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  ...
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.
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.
Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Vision

Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Vision

Claudia Olk

Modernist texts, particularly the works of Virginia Woolf, turn towards vision to explore new ways of seeing and aesthetic experience.
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 ...
The Waves

The Waves

Virginia Woolf

It 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 ...
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 ...
Selected Essays

Selected Essays

Virginia Woolf

'A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.' According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure.
A Companion to Virginia Woolf

A Companion to Virginia Woolf

Jessica Berman

Paul. K. Saint-Amour. Of Brick and Dusk In a career of singular novels, Mrs. Dalloway (1925) is an exception among exceptions. It is the only one of Virginia Woolf's long fictions to have begun as a short story – actually as a pair of stories, “ Mrs.
Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Michael Adams

A guide to reading "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure.
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

Placing Virginia Woolf's views in the context of the philosophical and lay accounts of everyday experience that dominated the cultural thought of her time, Sim draws on the major novels and on a number of shorter and less-discussed texts ...
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  ...
A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf

A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf

Jane Dunn

This biography examines the special relationship between the sisters, Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. The author has also written "Moon in Eclipse: A Life of Mary Shelley".
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 ...
The Years by Virginia Woolf

The Years by Virginia Woolf

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David Bradshaw, Ian Blyth. This edition first published 2012 © 1937 The Estate of Virginia Woolf Blackwell Publishing was acquired by John Wiley & Sons in February 2007. Blackwell's publishing program has been merged with Wiley's global ...
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'.
On Being Ill

On Being Ill

Virginia Woolf

"On Being Ill" is an essay by Virginia Woolf that appeared in T. S. Eliot's "The New Criterion" in January 1926. The essay sought to establish illness as a serious subject of literature along the lines of love, jealousy and battle.
Virginia Woolf: The Patterns of Ordinary Experience

Virginia Woolf: The Patterns of Ordinary Experience

Lorraine Sim

In her timely contribution to revisionist approaches in modernist studies, Lorraine Sim offers a reading of Virginia Woolf's conception of ordinary experience as revealed in her fiction and nonfiction.
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 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 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.

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