Diary Of Virginia Woolf

Author : Virginia Woolf,Lyndall Gordon
Publisher : Persephone Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Novelists, English
ISBN : 1903155886

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A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf,Lyndall Gordon Pdf

2012 Reprint of 1953 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, "A Writer's Diary" was collected by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing and those that are clearly writing exercises, accounts of people and scenes relevant to the raw material of her work, and finally, comments on books she was reading. The first entry is dated 1918 and the last, three weeks before her death in 1941. Between these points of time unfolds the private world - the anguish, the triumph, the creative vision - of one of the great writers of our century.

Author : Barbara Lounsberry
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813065380

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Virginia Woolf, the War Without, the War Within by Barbara Lounsberry Pdf

Choice Outstanding Academic Title In her third and final volume on Virginia Woolf’s diaries, Barbara Lounsberry reveals new insights about the courageous last years of the modernist writer’s life, from 1929 until Woolf’s suicide in 1941. Woolf turned more to her diary—and to the diaries of others—for support in these years as she engaged in inner artistic wars, including the struggle with her most difficult work, The Waves, and as the threat of fascism in the world outside culminated in World War II. During this period, the war began to bleed into Woolf’s diary entries. Woolf writes about Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin; copies down the headlines of the day; and captures how war changed her daily life. Alongside Woolf’s own entries, Lounsberry explores the diaries of 18 other writers as Woolf read them, including the diaries of Leo Tolstoy, Dorothy Wordsworth, Guy de Maupassant, Alice James, and André Gide. Lounsberry shows how reading diaries was both respite from Woolf’s public writing and also an inspiration for it. Tellingly, shortly before her suicide Woolf had stopped reading them completely. The outer war and Woolf’s inner life collide in this dramatic conclusion to the trilogy that resoundingly demonstrates why Virginia Woolf has been called “the Shakespeare of the diary.” Lounsberry’s masterful study is essential reading for a complete understanding of this extraordinary writer and thinker and the development of modernist literature.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : OCLC:1075847368

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The Diary of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf Pdf

Author : Barbara Lounsberry
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813048819

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Becoming Virginia Woolf by Barbara Lounsberry Pdf

Encompassing thirty-eight handwritten volumes, Virginia Woolf’s diary is her longest work, her longest sustained, and last work to reach the public. In the only full-length work to explore deeply this luminous and boundary-stretching masterpiece, Barbara Lounsberry traces Woolf’s development as a writer through her first twelve diaries—a fascinating experimental stage, where the earliest hints of Woolf’s pioneering modernist style can be seen. Starting with fourteen-year-old Woolf’s first palm-sized leather diary, Becoming Virginia Woolf illuminates how her private and public writing was shaped by the diaries of other writers including Samuel Pepys, James Boswell, the French Goncourt brothers, Mary Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Woolf’s “diary parents”—Sir Walter Scott and Fanny Burney. These key literary connections open a new and indispensable window onto the story of one of literature’s most renowned modernists.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Vintage Classic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Women novelists, English
ISBN : 0099518252

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Selected Diaries by Virginia Woolf Pdf

Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of domestic life. Between 1st January 1915 and her death in 1941 she regularly recorded he

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : London : Hogarth Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119439888

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The Diary of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf Pdf

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781590300060

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The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin Pdf

Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of readings. The Wave in the Mind includes some of Le Guin's finest literary criticism, rare autobiographical writings, performance art pieces, and, most centrally, her reflections on the arts of writing and reading.

Author : Barbara Lounsberry
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813065069

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Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path by Barbara Lounsberry Pdf

Choice Outstanding Academic Title In this second volume of her acclaimed study of Virginia Woolf 's diaries, Barbara Lounsberry traces the English writer's life through the thirteen diaries she kept from 1918 to 1929--what is often considered Woolf’s modernist "golden age." During these interwar years, Woolf penned many of her most famous works, including Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and A Room of One's Own. Lounsberry shows how Woolf's writing at this time was influenced by other diarists--Anton Chekhov, Katherine Mansfield, Jonathan Swift, and Stendhal among them--and how she continued to use her diaries as a way to experiment with form and as a practice ground for her evolving modernist style. Through close readings of Woolf 's journaling style and an examination of the diaries she read, Lounsberry tracks Woolf 's development as a writer and unearths new connections between her professional writing, personal writing, and the diaries she was reading at the time. Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path offers a new approach to Woolf 's biography: her life as she marked it in her diary from ages 36 to 46.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789181080452

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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume III: 1925-1930 by Virginia Woolf Pdf

Amid the tumultuous landscape of early 20th-century literature, a voice emerged that would forever alter the contours of modern fiction. This collection of intimate diaries offers an unprecedented glimpse into the mind of one of the greatest literary figures of her time. Spanning over several years, these journals reveal Virginia Woolf's innermost thoughts, struggles, and triumphs, providing an intimate counterpoint to her well-known novels. Readers are invited to witness the raw, unfiltered emotions that fueled Woolf's groundbreaking works, from the initial spark of inspiration to the painstaking process of creation. Her reflections on the cultural and political upheavals of her era, her candid observations on fellow writers, and her deeply personal battles with mental illness paint a vivid portrait of a woman driven by an insatiable quest for artistic perfection and personal truth. The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume II collects Woolf’s diaries between 1920 and 1924. VIRGINIA WOOLF [1882–1941] was an English author. With novels like Jacob’s Room [1922], Mrs Dalloway [1925], To the Lighthouse [1927], and Orlando [1928], she became a leading figure of modernism and is considered one of the most important English-language authors of the 20th century. As a thinker, with essays like A Room of One’s Own [1929], Woolf has influenced the women’s movement in many countries.

Author : J. Simons
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230376441

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Diaries and Journals of Literary Women from Fanny Burney to Virginia Woolf by J. Simons Pdf

This highly original book investigates the part played by their personal writings in the lives of eight literary women. Can private journals provide information about their authors' public works? Do diaries dramatise the development of an individual literary `voice'? What was the special attraction of the diary form for women, and why has it been so undervalued? Drawing on current feminist critical approaches, Judy Simons explores these and other questions in a stimulating and wide-ranging study of women's diary writing, which revises our entire way of thinking about this traditionally neglected genre and its particular implications for the woman writer.

Author : Deborah Martinson
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814209521

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In the Presence of Audience by Deborah Martinson Pdf

Martinson examines the diaries of Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Violet Hunt and Doris Lessing's fictional character Anna Wulf. She argues that these diaries (and others like them) are not entirely private writings, but that their authors wrote them knowing they would be read. She argues that the audience is the author's male lover or husband and describes how knowledge of this audience affects the language and content in each diary. She argues that this audience enforces a certain 'male censorship' which changes the shape of the revelations and of the writer herself.

Author : Virginia Woolf,Anne Olivier Bell
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Novelists, English
ISBN : 0712673040

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A Moment's Liberty by Virginia Woolf,Anne Olivier Bell Pdf

'A work of the highest imaginative genius, with powers of perception and description unexplaned in our time' Isaiah Berlin. Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide the thoughts and images uppermost in her mind. Whether describing public events or the joys and trials of domestic life, gossiping about her friends or wrestling with the difficulties of her art, gossiping about her friends or wrestling with the difficulties of her art, Virginia Woolf writes with unfailing grace, courage and honesty, and a lively wit which make her one of the most moving and entertaining diarists of this, or any, century. 'The moment I begin to read that light, clear, elegant prose I am seduced. (Virginia Woolf's)nephew Quentin Bell claims that the 30 volumes of Woolf's diary are a masterpiece. Anne Olivier Bell has reduced them to a single volume. I think it is still a masterpiece. ' A S Byatt, EVENING STANDARD

Author : Virginia Woolf,Andrew McNeillie
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991-10-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0156290561

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The Essays of Virginia Woolf, 1919-1924 by Virginia Woolf,Andrew McNeillie Pdf

Collects articles and book reviews by the English novelist

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547792178

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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Pdf

Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death. The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 0701204036

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The Letters of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf Pdf