Virginia Woolf S Problem With Authority

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781608467204

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The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit Pdf

A collection of feminist essays steeped in “Solnit’s unapologetically observant and truth-speaking voice on toxic, violent masculinity” (The Los Angeles Review). In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more. In characteristic style, “Solnit draw[s] anecdotes of female indignity or male aggression from history, social media, literature, popular culture, and the news . . . The main essay in the book is about the various ways that women are silenced, and Solnit focuses upon the power of storytelling—the way that who gets to speak, and about what, shapes how a society understands itself and what it expects from its members. The Mother of All Questions poses the thesis that telling women’s stories to the world will change the way that the world treats women, and it sets out to tell as many of those stories as possible” (The New Yorker). “There’s a new feminist revolution—open to people of all genders—brewing right now and Rebecca Solnit is one of its most powerful, not to mention beguiling, voices.”—Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times–bestselling author of Natural Causes “Short, incisive essays that pack a powerful punch.” —Publishers Weekly “A keen and timely commentary on gender and feminism. Solnit’s voice is calm, clear, and unapologetic; each essay balances a warm wit with confident, thoughtful analysis, resulting in a collection that is as enjoyable and accessible as it is incisive.” —Booklist

Author : Sarah Leon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Androgyny (Psychology) in literature
ISBN : OCLC:1430585675

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Virginia Woolf's problem with authority by Sarah Leon Pdf

Author : A. Snaith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230206045

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Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies by A. Snaith Pdf

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. The essays provide concise summaries of the key works in the field as well as an engaging description of the approach itself.

Author : Brenda R. Silver
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0226757455

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Virginia Woolf Icon by Brenda R. Silver Pdf

The proliferation of Virginia Woolfs in both high and popular culture, she argues, has transformed the writer into a "star" whose image and authority are persistently claimed or challenged in debates about art, politics, gender, the canon, class, feminism, and fashion."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Katerina Koutsantoni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317001560

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Virginia Woolf's Common Reader by Katerina Koutsantoni Pdf

In the first comprehensive study of Virginia Woolf's Common Reader, Katerina Koutsantoni draws on theorists from the fields of sociology, sociolinguistics, philosophy, and literary criticism to investigate the thematic pattern underpinning these books with respect to the persona of the 'common reader'. Though these two volumes are the only ones that Woolf compiled herself, they have seldom been considered as a whole. As a result, what they reveal about Woolf's position with regard to the processes of writing, reading, and critical analysis has not been fully examined. Koutsantoni challenges the critical commonplace that equates Woolf's strategy of self-effacement and personal removal from her works as a necessary compromise that allowed her to achieve authorial recognition in a male-dominated context. Rather, Koutsantoni argues that an investigation of impersonality in Woolf's essays reveals the potential of the genre to function both as a vehicle for the subjective and dialogic expression of the author and reader and as a venue for exploring topics with which the ordinary reader can relate. As she explores and challenges the meaning of impersonality in Woolf's Common Reader, Koutsantoni shows how the related issues of subjectivity, authority, reader-response, intersubjectivity, and dialogism offer useful perspectives from which to examine Woolf's work.

Author : Makiko Minow-Pinkney
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748686827

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Virginia Woolf and the Problem of the Subject by Makiko Minow-Pinkney Pdf

This classic study, now made available again to readers, shows that Woolf's most experimental writing is far from being a flight from social commitment into arcane modernism.

Author : Juliet Dusinberre
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349256440

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Virginia Woolf's Renaissance by Juliet Dusinberre Pdf

Dusinberre's book explores Woolf's search, in The Common Reader and other non-fictional writings, for an alternative literary tradition for women. Of equal interest to students of Virginia Woolf and of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing, it discusses Montaigne, Donne, Sir John Harington, Dorothy Osborne, Madame de Sevigne, Pepys and Bunyan, together with forms of writing, such as essays, letters and diaries, traditionally associated with women. Questions about printing, the body and the relation between amateurs and professionals create fascinating connections between the early modern period and Virginia Woolf.

Author : Deborah A. Dooley
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1995-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791423204

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Plain and Ordinary Things by Deborah A. Dooley Pdf

This book is about women's exploration of the relations between their private and public selves--it examines the voices with which women speak to their students, their colleagues, and themselves. The major audience is women interested in women's identity and identity construction as well as writing.

Author : Kathryn Simpson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472590688

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Woolf: A Guide for the Perplexed by Kathryn Simpson Pdf

Virginia Woolf is one of the best-known and most influential modernist writers; an iconic figure, her image and reference to her work and life appear in the most varied of cultural sites. Her writing is, however, in many ways kaleidoscopic and has given rise to a diverse and, sometimes, conflicting body of critical work. Whilst Woolf envisaged that her readers could be 'fellow-worker[s]' in the creative process, there is much to perplex any reader approaching her writing, especially for the first time. Drawing on some of the main critical debates and on Woolf's non-fictional writings, this guide untangles some of the difficulties and perplexities that can prove a barrier to understanding of Woolf's writing. These include aspects of the process of writing (such as narrative techniques, formal structures, characterisation), as well as the thematic concerns so central to Woolf's writing, the cultural context in which it emerged and to recent criticism, including representations of gender and sexuality, class and race.

Author : Makiko Minow-Pinkney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1110960293

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Virginia Woolf and the problem of the subject by Makiko Minow-Pinkney Pdf

Author : Judy S. Reese
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0945636830

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Recasting Social Values in the Work of Virginia Woolf by Judy S. Reese Pdf

She attempts to define and explore her value system using two fabricated measuring standards, the public psychometer of great art and the private psychometer of instinct or taste. These often conflicting standards, however, lead her into a maze of circular reasoning and contradiction. In order to escape her cultural context, Woolf needed an Archimedes point, some distant position and objective perspective from which to view and judge the whole of society.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788027235216

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BETWEEN THE ACTS by Virginia Woolf Pdf

Between the Acts is the final novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1941 shortly after her suicide. This is a book laden with hidden meaning and allusion. It describes the mounting, performance, and audience of a festival play (hence the title) in a small English village just before the outbreak of the Second World War. Much of it looks forward to the war, with veiled allusions to connection with the continent by flight, swallows representing aircraft, and plunging into darkness. The pageant is a play within a play, representing a rather cynical view of English history. Woolf links together many different threads and ideas - a particularly interesting technique being the use of rhyme words to suggest hidden meanings. Relationships between the characters and aspects of their personalities are explored. The English village bonds throughout the play through their differences and similarities. Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer who is considered one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

Author : Linda Nicole Blair
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476627212

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Virginia Woolf and the Power of Story by Linda Nicole Blair Pdf

From novels to films, our everyday lives are filled with stories that comfort and connect us and enable new ways of thinking. One of the most innovative writers in modern history, Virginia Woolf, changed the landscape of fiction and challenged our notions of what it means to be human. Her novels invite readers to envision a world in which stories have the power to effect positive change. This book explores the phenomenon of Story as practiced by Woolf, interpreting her work in the context of literary Darwinism—a critical approach focusing on patterns of innate human behavior.

Author : Michael H. Whitworth
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191604454

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Virginia Woolf (Authors in Context) by Michael H. Whitworth Pdf

During Virginia Woolf's lifetime Britain's position in the world changed, and so did the outlook of its people. The Boer War and the First World War forced politicians and citizens alike to ask how far the power of the state extended into the lives of individuals; the rise of fascism provided one menacing answer. Woolf's experiments in fiction, and her unique position in the publishing world, allowed her to address such intersections of the public and the private. Michael H. Whitworth shows how ideas and images from contemporary novelists, philosophers, theorists, and scientists fuelled her writing, and how critics, film-makers, and novelists have reinterpreted her work for later generations. The book includes a chronology of Virginia Woolf's life and times, suggestions for further reading, websites, illustrations, and a comprehensive index. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.