Virginia Woolf S Portraits Of Russian Writers

Author : Darya Protopopova
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527527829

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Virginia Woolf’s Portraits of Russian Writers by Darya Protopopova Pdf

Virginia Woolf always stayed ahead of her time. Championing gender equality when women could not vote; publishing authors from Pakistan, France, Austria and other parts of the world, while nationalism in Britain was on the rise; and befriending outcasts and social pariahs. As such, what could have possibly interested her in the works of nineteenth-century Russian writers, austere and, at times, misogynistic thinkers preoccupied with peasants, priests, and paroxysms of the soul? This study explains the chronological and cultural paradox of how classic Russian fiction became crucial to Woolf’s vision of British modernism. We follow Woolf as she begins to learn Russian, invents a character for a story by Dostoevsky, ponders over Sophia Tolstoy’s suicide note, and proclaims Chekhov a truly ‘modern’ writer. The book also examines British modernists’ fascination with Russian art, looking at parallels between Roger Fry’s articles on Russian Post-Impressionists and Woolf’s essays on Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev.

Author : Virginia Woolf,Mary Lyon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 0586047999

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Books and Portraits by Virginia Woolf,Mary Lyon Pdf

Forty-five previously uncollected literary sketches, reviews, and profiles by the distinguished modern English novelist include writings on women and women authors, Russian literature, and such Americans as Emerson, Thoreau, and Melville.

Author : R. Rubenstein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230100558

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Virginia Woolf and the Russian Point of View by R. Rubenstein Pdf

This book brings together Virginia Woolf's essays and book reviews on Russian literature; her unpublished reading notes on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Turgenev; and new and insightful scholarly commentary concerning her response to each of the major Russian writers.

Author : Ira B. Nadel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350115026

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Love and Russian Literature by Ira B. Nadel Pdf

Russia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century – whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism. In this new book, Ira Nadel, charts the story of that influence through the work of some of the key figures in British literature across the century, including Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Jane Harrison, Virginia Woolf, and H.G. Wells. Framed by the story of two romantic encounters, between Walter Benjamin and the actress Asja Lacis in Moscow in 1926 and between Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova in 1945, Love and Russian Literature casts a vivid new light on the ways in which responses to Russia shaped the history of British modernism.

Author : Kamila Pawlikowska
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004302266

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Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965) by Kamila Pawlikowska Pdf

Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965) examines prose portraits which challenge the belief that the face reflects character. Their authors consider physiognomy as a form of aesthetic dictatorship conducive to stereotyping and racism.

Author : Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496229229

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What Isn't Remembered by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry Pdf

Longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the stories in What Isn't Remembered explore the burden, the power, and the nature of love between people who often feel misplaced and estranged from their deepest selves and the world, where they cannot find a home. The characters yearn not only to redefine themselves and rebuild their relationships but also to recover lost loves--a parent, a child, a friend, a spouse, a partner. A young man longs for his mother's love while grieving the loss of his older brother. A mother's affair sabotages her relationship with her daughter, causing a lifelong feud between the two. A divorced man struggles to come to terms with his failed marriage and his family's genocidal past while trying to persuade his father to start cancer treatments. A high school girl feels responsible for the death of her best friend, and the guilt continues to haunt her decades later. Evocative and lyrical, the tales in What Isn't Remembered uncover complex events and emotions, as well as the unpredictable ways in which people adapt to what happens in their lives, finding solace from the most surprising and unexpected sources.

Author : Viviane Forrester,Carl Woodring,Jody Gladding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0231153570

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Virginia Woolf by Viviane Forrester,Carl Woodring,Jody Gladding Pdf

Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. Forrester weaves a colorful, intense drama that forces readers to rethink their understanding of Woolf, her writing, and her world.

Author : Judy Little
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803288140

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Comedy and the Woman Writer by Judy Little Pdf

Recent critics have affirmed the difficulty—perhaps the impossibility—of defining modern comedy; at the same time, some feminist scholars are seeking to understand the special comedy often present in literature written by women. Comedy and the Woman Writer responds to both these concerns of recent criticism: feminist literary theory and theories of comedy. Judy Little develops a critical apparatus for identifying feminist comedy in recent fiction, especially the radical political and psychological implications of this comedy, and then applies and tests her theory by examining the novels of Virginia Woolf and Muriel Spark. Despite recent scholarly attention to Woolf, the profound comedy of her work has been largely overlooked, and the comic fiction of Spark has seldom had the responsible and attentive criticism that it deserves. The introductory chapter draws upon anthropology and sociology, as well as literary criticism and the fiction of feminist writers such as Woolf, Doris Lessing, and Monique Wittig, to define a modern feminist comedy. Four central chapters then explore the implications of this comedy in the novels of Woolf and Spark. Little distinguishes between, on the one hand, several varieties of traditional comedy and satire and, on the other, the festive or “liminal” comedy to which feminist comedy belongs. Both Woolf and Spark mock centuries-old mythic patterns and behaviors deriving from basic social norms, as well as the values emerging from these norms. It is one thing, the author points out, to find “manners” amusing, to scourge vices, or to mock the follies of lovers; it is a much more drastic act of the imagination to mock the very norms against which comedy has traditionally judged vices, follies, and eccentricities. While the comedy of Woolf and Spark has some precedent in festive or liminal celebrations, during which even basic values and behavior are abandoned, feminist comedy displays its radical nature by implying that there is no resolution to the inverted overturned world, the world in revolutionary transition. The final chapter considers briefly, in the light of the critical model of feminist comedy, the work of several other twentieth-century writers, including Jean Rhys, Penelope Moritmer, and Margaret Drabble. The presence of radical comedy in the fiction of these and other writers suggests the need for continuing attention to the theory of feminist comedy proposed in this study.

Author : Kerstin Elert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : English fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106005091274

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Portraits of Women in Selected Novels by Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster by Kerstin Elert Pdf

Author : Ivan Alekseevich Bunin,Leonard Woolf,Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1297576020

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The Gentleman from San Francisco, and Other Stories by Ivan Alekseevich Bunin,Leonard Woolf,Virginia Woolf Pdf

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Author : Barbara Lounsberry
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Maggie Humm
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748635535

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Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts by Maggie Humm Pdf

The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts is the most authoritative and up-to-date guide to Virginia Woolf's artistic influences and associations. In original, extensive and newly researched chapters by internationally recognised authors, the Companion explores Woolf's ideas about creativity and the nature of art in the context of the recent 'turn to the visual' in modernist studies with its focus on visual technologies and the significance of material production. The in-depth chapters place Woolf's work in relation to the most influential aesthetic theories and artistic practices, including Bloomsbury aesthetics, art and race, Vanessa Bell and painting, art galleries, theatre, music, dance, fashion, entertaining, garden and book design, broadcasting, film, and photography. No previous book concerned with Woolf and the arts has been so wide ranging or has paid such close attention to both public and domestic art forms.Illustrated with 16 olour as well as 39 black and white illustrations and with guides to further reading, the Companion will be an essential reference work for scholars, students and the general public.Key Features* An essential reference tool for all those working on or interested in Virginia Woolf, the arts, visual culture and modernist studies* Provides a new intellectual framework for the exciting discoveries of the past decades*Draws on archival and historical research into Virginia Woolf's manuscripts and her Bloomsbury milieu*Original chapters from expert contributors newly commissioned by Maggie Humm, widely known for her important work on Virginia Woolf and visual culture*Combines broad synthesis and original reflection setting Woolf's work in historical, cultural and artistic contexts

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Arihant Publications India limited
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789326191975

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by Anonim Pdf

Author : Claire Davison
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748682829

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Translation as Collaboration by Claire Davison Pdf

This study focuses on the considerable but neglected body of works translated by S. S. Koteliansky in collaboration with Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Amereon Limited
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1981-03-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0848806840

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Books and Portraits by Virginia Woolf Pdf