Virginia Woolf And The Aesthetics Of Vision

Author : Claudia Olk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Jane Goldman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521590965

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The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf by Jane Goldman Pdf

Jane Goldman offers a revisionary, feminist reading of Woolf's work. Focusing on Woolf's engagement with the artistic theories of her time, Goldman analyzes Woolf's fascination with the Post-Impressionist exhibition of 1920 and the solar eclipse of 1927 by linking her response to a much wider literary and cultural context. Illustrated with color pictures, this book will appeal not only to scholars working on Woolf, but also to students of modernism, art history, and women's studies.

Author : Peter Adkins,Derek Ryan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781949979381

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Virginia Woolf, Europe, and Peace by Peter Adkins,Derek Ryan Pdf

This volume asks how Woolf conceptualized peace by exploring various experimental forms she created in response to violence and crisis. Across fifteen chapters written by an international array of scholars, this book draws out theoretical dimensions of Woolf’s aesthetics and deepens our understanding of her writing about war, ethics, feminism and European culture.

Author : Amber Jenkins
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031324918

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Virginia Woolf, Literary Materiality, and Feminist Aesthetics by Amber Jenkins Pdf

This book interrogates the relationship between the material conditions of Woolf's writing practices and her work as a printer and publisher at the Hogarth Press. In bringing to light her embodied literary processes, from drafting and composition to hand-printing and binding, this study foregrounds the interactions between Woolf's modernist experimentation and the visual and material aspects of her printed works. By drawing on the field of print culture, as well as the materialist turn in Woolf scholarship, it explores how her experience in print, book-design and publishing underlines her experimental writing, and how her literary texts are conditioned by the context of their production. This book, therefore, provides new ways of reading Woolf's modernism in the context of twentieth-century print, material, and visual cultures. By suggesting that Woolf's work at the Hogarth Press sensitized her to the significant role the visual aspects of a text play in its system of representation, it also considers the extent to which materiality informs both her work, as well as her engagement with Bloomsbury formalist aesthetics, which often exaggerate the distinction between visual and verbal modes of expression.

Author : C. Ruth Miller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349195954

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Virginia Woolf: The Frames of Art and Life by C. Ruth Miller Pdf

An attempt to illuminate Virginia Woolf's aesthetic by providing an original thoery regarding her use of the random frames provided by life. Her novels are shown to use windows, thresholds, mirrors and, less directly, rooms to frame scenes which chart the border between life and art.

Author : Holly Henry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521812976

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Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science by Holly Henry Pdf

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Author : Vijay Kapur
Publisher : Humanities Press International
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Sharon Louise Wood Proudfit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Post-impressionism (Art)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036026743

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The Fact and the Vision by Sharon Louise Wood Proudfit Pdf

Author : Joanne Tidwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135905040

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Politics and Aesthetics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf by Joanne Tidwell Pdf

In this critical study, Tidwell examines the conflict of aesthetics and politics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf. As a modernist writer concerned with contemporary aesthetic theories, Woolf experimented with limiting the representative nature of writing. At the same time, as a feminist, Woolf wanted to incorporate her political interests in her fiction, but overt political statement conflicted with her aesthetic ideals. Her solution was to combine innovative narrative techniques and subject matter traditionally associated with women. Tidwell analyzes several of Woolf’s novels, including To the Lighthouse, Jacob’s Room, and Between the Acts to elucidate the diary’s technique and form, as well as to cast it as a valuable contribution to Woolf’s canon.

Author : David Dowling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1984-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781349176731

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Bloomsbury Aesthetics and the Novels of Forster and Woolf by David Dowling Pdf

Author : Nancy Topping Bazin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004956434

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The Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf by Nancy Topping Bazin Pdf

Author : Maggie Humm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026117080

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Modernist Women and Visual Cultures by Maggie Humm Pdf

This study offers an original approach to modernist visual aesthetics, drawing on a range of photographic and visual theory, psychoanalytic theories of the visual and modernist criticism as well as on original archive research. The book covers the domestic photography of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, the cinema writing of Colette, H.D., Dorothy Richardson, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf and Bryher and the role of the visual in Virginia Woolf's image/text Three Guineas. Throughout, there is a concern with women's ways of looking and a critical exploration of how gendered subjectivities are visually constructed.

Author : Pamela J. Transue
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1986-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438422282

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Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Style by Pamela J. Transue Pdf

This readable, informed, and insightful book illustrates the effects Virginia Woolf's feminism had on her art. Woolf's committed feminism combined with her integrity as an artist and her ability to metamorphose ideology into art make her work particularly suitable for a study of the complex relationship of polemic to aesthetics. There is hardly a more crucial issue for the feminist artist today, who must seek a successful fusion of her principles with her art. For the student of this art Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Style provides a means to evaluate the success or failure of these strategies. While Woolf's essays reflect a strong if somewhat quirky feminism, she was highly critical of didacticism in fiction. For that reason her novels at first glance appear relatively free of polemic. Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Style reveals that her feminism is more accurately described as latent in the novels, having been merged into the aesthetic components of style, structure, point of view, and patterns of imagery.

Author : Joanne Tidwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135905057

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Politics and Aesthetics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf by Joanne Tidwell Pdf

This study of Virginia Woolf’s diary examines how Woolf resolved the conflict of expressing political viewpoints with her aesthetic goals, focusing on how that struggle played out in her diary.

Author : Allison Tzu Yu Lin
Publisher : 秀威出版
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Arts, European
ISBN : 9789862211465

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Virginia Woolf and the European Avant-Garde : London, Painting, Film and Photography by Allison Tzu Yu Lin Pdf

Virginia Woolf and the European Avant-Garde: London, Painting, Film and Photography explores the aesthetics of Woolf’s image of London in her writings. The image of London does not make Woolf a “stay-at-home” writer. Through her life long engagement with the visual arts, art criticism and philosophy, Woolf finds related expression in literature, as one can see in her narrative: the Post-Impressionist dual vision of painting in writing, Cubist cinematic flashback and montage of shots, and Surrealist snapshort of life, death and desire. Woolf’s narrative from defines her own modernism in the context of the city. Her vision shows the dialectics of inner and outer spheres, in which the aesthetics of the urban gendered gaze is significant.【秀威資訊科技股份有限公司製作】