The Visions Of Virginia Woolf

Author : Claudia Olk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110340235

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Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Vision by Claudia Olk Pdf

The category of vision is significant for Modernist texts as well as for the unfolding discourse of Modernism itself. Within the general Modernist fascination with the artistic and experimental possibilities of vision and perception this study looks at Virginia Woolf’s novels and her critical writings and examines the relation between visuality and aesthetics. An aesthetics of vision, as this study argues, becomes a productive principle of narrative. The visual is not only pertinent to Woolf’s processes of composition, but her works create a kind of vision that is proper to the text itself – a vision that reflects on the experience of seeing and renegotiates the relation between the reader and the text. The study investigates key dimensions of aesthetic vision. It addresses vision in the context of theories of aesthetic experience and identifies a semantics of seeing. It analyses functions of symbolic materiality in the presentation of boundaries of perception, modes of temporality and poetic potentialities. In exploring the connections between vision and language, it seeks to provide new perspectives for a reassessment of what occurs in Modernism's relation to vision.

Author : Nicky Huys
Publisher : Nicky Huys Books
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Visions Of Virginia Woolf by Nicky Huys Pdf

"The Visions of Virginia Woolf" delves into the profound and innovative literary world of one of the most influential figures in modernist literature. Through her pioneering use of stream of consciousness and her exploration of feminist themes, Woolf's work transcends time and continues to inspire readers. This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Woolf's visionary writing, delving into her life, influences, and the profound impact of her work on the literary world. It provides an in-depth analysis of her most notable works, offering a compelling journey through the vivid and complex visions of Virginia Woolf.

Author : Claudia Olk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110393514

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Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Vision by Claudia Olk Pdf

The category of vision is significant for Modernist texts as well as for the unfolding discourse of Modernism itself. Within the general Modernist fascination with the artistic and experimental possibilities of vision and perception this study looks at Virginia Woolf’s novels and her critical writings and examines the relation between visuality and aesthetics. An aesthetics of vision, as this study argues, becomes a productive principle of narrative. The visual is not only pertinent to Woolf’s processes of composition, but her works create a kind of vision that is proper to the text itself – a vision that reflects on the experience of seeing and renegotiates the relation between the reader and the text. The study investigates key dimensions of aesthetic vision. It addresses vision in the context of theories of aesthetic experience and identifies a semantics of seeing. It analyses functions of symbolic materiality in the presentation of boundaries of perception, modes of temporality and poetic potentialities. In exploring the connections between vision and language, it seeks to provide new perspectives for a reassessment of what occurs in Modernism's relation to vision.

Author : Alice van Buren Kelley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:782001513

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The Novels of Virginia Woolf by Alice van Buren Kelley Pdf

Author : Frances Spalding
Publisher : National Portrait Gallery
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art and literature
ISBN : 1855144816

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Virginia Woolf by Frances Spalding Pdf

Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 10 July to 26 October 2014.

Author : Vijay Kapur
Publisher : Humanities Press International
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Realism in literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106016479260

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Virginia Woolf's Vision of Life and Her Search for Significant Form by Vijay Kapur Pdf

Author : Nancy Topping Bazin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:10033612

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Virginia Woolf and the Androgynous Vision by Nancy Topping Bazin Pdf

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1644230585

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Oh, To Be a Painter! by Virginia Woolf Pdf

Virginia Woolf’s collection of writings on visual arts offer a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author. Despite wide interest in Woolf’s writings, and in the artists and art critics in her Bloomsbury Group circle, there is no accessible edition or selection of essays dedicated to her writings on art. This newest edition in David Zwirner Books’s ekphrasis series collects her longest essay on painting, “Walter Sickert: A Conversation” (1934), alongside shorter essays and reviews, including “Pictures” (1925), and “Pictures and Portraits” (1920). These formally inventive texts reveal the centrality of the visual arts to Woolf’s writing and vision. They show her engaging with contemporary debates about modern art and are innovative in their treatment of ideas about color and form, including in response to the work of her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, who designed many of her book cover jackets. In these essays and reviews, Woolf illuminates the complex and interdependent relationship between the artist and society, and reveals her own shifting perspectives during decades of social and political change. She also provides sharp and astute commentary on specific works of art and on the relationship between art and writing. An introduction by Claudia Tobin situates the essays within their cultural contexts.

Author : Ellen Bernstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1430800758

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The Permutations of Darkness in the Vision of Virginia Woolf by Ellen Bernstein Pdf

Author : A. O. Frank
Publisher : Akademiai Kiado
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9630578506

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The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf by A. O. Frank Pdf

This book is well calculated to bring about the long awaited breakthrough in the appreciation of Virginia Woolf as an intellectual author. A.O. Frank argues that in Woolf's mature novels we find a coherent body of philosophical thought presented in lyrical prose which is nonetheless precisely argued. In sections of meticulously precise close reading Frank analyzes the complex mechanisms of "textual engineering" through which Woolf's ideas find expression. Educated in the German/Continental tradition of Aesthetics and Philosophy, the author believes that "for a thought to be thought out properly, it needs to be thought out philosophically." Speaking from a fruitfully intermediate position between British and Continental culture, she highlights and explicates Woolf's philosophical thought by analyzing carefully selected passages from existential, cosmological and epistemological texts by Nietzsche as well as Heidegger, the later Wittgenstein and Derrida.

Author : Nancy Topping Bazin
Publisher : New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007500858

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Virginia Woolf and the Androgynous Vision by Nancy Topping Bazin Pdf

Author : Rachel Eisendrath
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781681375441

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Gallery of Clouds by Rachel Eisendrath Pdf

A personal and critical work that celebrates the pleasure of books and reading. Largely unknown to readers today, Sir Philip Sidney’s sixteenth-century pastoral romance Arcadia was long considered one of the finest works of prose fiction in the English language. Shakespeare borrowed an episode from it for King Lear; Virginia Woolf saw it as “some luminous globe” wherein “all the seeds of English fiction lie latent.” In Gallery of Clouds, the Renaissance scholar Rachel Eisendrath has written an extraordinary homage to Arcadia in the form of a book-length essay divided into passing clouds: “The clouds in my Arcadia, the one I found and the one I made, hold light and color. They take on the forms of other things: a cat, the sea, my grandmother, the gesture of a teacher I loved, a friend, a girlfriend, a ship at sail, my mother. These clouds stay still only as long as I look at them, and then they change.” Gallery of Clouds opens in New York City with a dream, or a vision, of meeting Virginia Woolf in the afterlife. Eisendrath holds out her manuscript—an infinite moment passes—and Woolf takes it and begins to read. From here, in this act of magical reading, the book scrolls out in a series of reflective pieces linked through metaphors and ideas. Golden threadlines tie each part to the next: a rupture of time in a Pisanello painting; Montaigne’s practice of revision in his essays; a segue through Vivian Gordon Harsh, the first African American head librarian in the Chicago public library system; a brief history of prose style; a meditation on the active versus the contemplative life; the story of Sarapion, a fifth-century monk; the persistence of the pastoral; image-making and thought; reading Willa Cather to her grandmother in her Chicago apartment; the deviations of Walter Benjamin’s “scholarly romance,” The Arcades Project. Eisendrath’s wondrously woven hybrid work extols the materiality of reading, its pleasures and delights, with wild leaps and abounding grace.

Author : Vanda Zajko,Helena Hoyle
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444339604

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A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology by Vanda Zajko,Helena Hoyle Pdf

A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology presents a collection of essays that explore a wide variety of aspects of Greek and Roman myths and their critical reception from antiquity to the present day. Reveals the importance of mythography to the survival, dissemination, and popularization of classical myth from the ancient world to the present day Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance Offers a series of carefully selected in-depth readings, including both popular and less well-known examples

Author : Susan Merrill Squier
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469639918

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Virginia Woolf and London by Susan Merrill Squier Pdf

To Virginia Woolf, London was a source of creative inspiration, a setting for many of her works, and a symbol of the culture in which she lived and wrote. In a 1928 diary entry, she observed, "London itself perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play & a story & a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the streets." The city fascinated Woolf, yet her relationship with it was problematic. In her attempts to resolve her developmental struggles as a woman write in a patriarchal society, Woolf shaped and reshaped the image and meaning of London. Using psychoanalytic, feminist, and social theories, Susan Squier explores the transformed meaning of the city in Woolf's essays, memoirs, and novels as it functions in the creation of a mature feminist vision. Squier shows that Woolf's earlier works depict London as a competitive patriarchal environment that excluded her, but her mature works portray the city as beginning to accept the force of female energy. Squier argues that this transformation was made possible by Woolf's creative ability to appropriate and revise the masculine literary and cultural forms of her society. The act of writing, or "scene making," allowed Woolf to break from her familial and cultural heritage and recreate London in her own literary voice and vision. Virginia Woolf and London is based on analyses of Woolf's memoirs, her little-known early and mature London essays, Night and Day, Mrs. Dalloway, Flush, and The Years. By focusing on Woolf's changing attitudes about the city, Squier is able to define Woolf's evolving belief that women could "reframe" the city-scape and use it to imagine and create a more egalitarian world. Squier's study offers significant new insights into the interplay between self and society as it shapes the work of a woman writer. Originally published in 1985. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : C. Reynier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230244726

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Virginia Woolf’s Ethics of the Short Story by C. Reynier Pdf

Virginia Woolf's Ethics of the Short Story aims at a synthetic appraisal of Woolf's short stories as a space of encounter and a site of resistance. It throws a new light on Woolf's short stories as foregrounding the ethical as well as the political and the aesthetic and shows how they participate fully in her creative process.