Virginia Woolf S Renaissance

Author : Juliet Dusinberre
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0877455775

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Virginia Woolf's Renaissance by Juliet Dusinberre Pdf

Explores Virginia Woolf's affinity with the early modern period and her sense of being reborn as writer and reader through the creation of an alternative tradition of reading and writing whose roots go back to the Elizabethans and beyond. The author, a Fellow in English at Girton College, Cambridge, critiques Woolf's ideas through a discussion of particular writers--Montaigne, Donne, Pepys and Bunyan, Dorothy Osborne and Madame de Sevigne. She considers the forms traditionally associated with women, such as the essay, the personal letter and diary, in the context of printing, the body, and the relationship between amateurs and professionals. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Sally Greene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015047457646

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Virginia Woolf by Sally Greene Pdf

The story of "Shakespeare's sister" that Virginia Woolf tells in A Room of One's Own has sparked interest in the question of the place of the woman writer in the Renaissance. By now, the process of recovering lost voices of early modern women is well under way. But Woolf's engagement with the Renaissance went deeper than that question indicates, as important as it was. Her writing reveals a lifelong conversation with the literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the travel narratives of Hakluyt to the works of Donne, Milton, Montaigne, and of course Shakespeare. The first collection of essays to explore Woolf's Renaissance, Virginia Woolf: Reading the Renaissance reflects an important interdisciplinary development: contributors include Renaissance as well as twentieth-century specialists. Part of a larger movement to explore the intellectual currents shaping our literary and cultural inheritance, these essays speak to a community of readers that includes, in addition to Woolf and Renaissance scholars, anyone interested in the deep roots of modernism, women's studies, or literary history itself.

Author : Alice Fox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015017001259

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Virginia Woolf and the Literature of the English Renaissance by Alice Fox Pdf

A study of the influence of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature on Virginia Woolf's novels and criticism which offers new interpretations and enriches our understanding of Woolf's creative process.

Author : Jane de Gay
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748626359

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Virginia Woolf's Novels and the Literary Past by Jane de Gay Pdf

The first book to explore Virginia Woolf's preoccupation with the literary past and its profound impact on the content and structure of her novels.It analyses Woolf's reading and writing practices via her essays, diaries and reading notebooks and presents chronological studies of eight of her novels, exploring how Woolf's intensive reading surfaced in her fiction. The book sheds light on Woolf's varied and intricate use of literary allusions; examines ways in which Woolf revisited and revised plots and tropes from earlier fiction; and looks at how she used parody as a means both of critical comment and homage.

Author : Ralph Freedman
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520302822

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Virginia Woolf by Ralph Freedman Pdf

The renaissance of Virginia Woolf reflects a reassessment not only of Woolf as a writer but also of our social and political life as a whole. It points up differences between English and American readers, between older and younger critics, between men and women. Particularly striking in the revaluation is a tendency to approach Woolf as a soliloquist, a person, rather than as a detached and formal artist. In this collection, Ralph Freedman has brought together some of Woolf's most interesting commentators, whose varied concerns, traditional and modern, demonstrate the vitality and scope of Woolf criticism. Virginia Woolf: Revaluation and Continuity contains essays by Ralph Freedman, Harvena Richter, James Hafley, Avrom Fleishman, F. P. W. McDowell, Jane Marcus, Lucio Ruotolo, Maria DiBattista, Jean O. Love, Madeline Moore, James Naremore, and B. H. Fussell. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

Author : Anna Burrells,Steve Ellis
Publisher : Clemson University Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781638041276

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Woolfian Boundaries by Anna Burrells,Steve Ellis Pdf

Woolfian Boundaries explores Woolf’s work from perspectives “beyond the boundary” of her own positions and attitudes, taking her coolness toward the provinces and “prejudice” against the regional novel (Letters 6: 381) as the starting point for considering her writing in the light of its own “limits,” self-declared and otherwise. Chapter topics range from Woolf’s connections with the “Birmingham School” of novelists in the 1930s to her interests in environmentalism, portraiture, photography, and the media, and her endlessly fascinating relationship with the writings of her contemporaries and predecessors.

Author : Ann L. Ardis,Bonnie Kime Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106011211486

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Virginia Woolf by Ann L. Ardis,Bonnie Kime Scott Pdf

Author : G. Potts,L. Shahriari
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230251304

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Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury, Volume 1 by G. Potts,L. Shahriari Pdf

This volume features new essays by eminent and emerging Woolf scholars, focusing on the aesthetics and influences of Virginia Woolf's work. Themes include eco-criticism, conceptions of intellectual women, spaces and places, and Woolf beyond Bloomsbury. The volume opens with a personal reflection by Cecil Woolf, nephew of Leonard and Virginia Woolf.

Author : Tina Krontiris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Authorship
ISBN : OCLC:1150997323

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Oppositional Voices by Tina Krontiris Pdf

Author : Kathleen P. Long
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0754669718

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Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture by Kathleen P. Long Pdf

In the wake of new interest in alchemy as more significant than a bizarre aberration in rational Western European culture, this collection examines both alchemical and medical discourses in the larger context of early modern Europe. This volume investigates issues of gender and scientific discourse as a starting point for a broader discussion of early modern scientific subcultures and their relationship to the restructuring and questioning of gender roles.

Author : Dr Theodore Koulouris
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409476337

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Hellenism and Loss in the Work of Virginia Woolf by Dr Theodore Koulouris Pdf

Taking up Virginia Woolf's fascination with Greek literature and culture, this book explores her engagement with the nineteenth-century phenomenon of British Hellenism and her transformation of that multifaceted socio-cultural and political reality into a particular textual aesthetic, which Theodore Koulouris defines as 'Greekness.' Woolf was a lifelong student of Greek, but from 1907 to1909 she kept notes on her Greek readings in the Greek Notebook, an obscure and largely unexamined manuscript that contains her analyses of a number of canonical Greek texts, including Plato's Symposium, Homer's Odyssey, and Euripides' Ion. Koulouris's examination of this manuscript uncovers crucial insights into the early development of Woolf's narrative styles and helps establish the link between Greekness and loss. Woolf's 'Greekness,' Koulouris argues, enabled her to navigate male and female appropriations of British Hellenism and provided her with a means of articulating loss, whether it be loss of a great Hellenic past, women's vocality, immediate family members, or human civilization during the formative decades of the twentieth century. In drawing attention to the centrality of Woolf's early Greek studies for the elegiac quality of her writing, Koulouris maps a new theoretical terrain that involves reassessing long-established views on Woolf and the Greeks.

Author : Ralph Freedman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520036255

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Virginia Woolf, Revaluation and Continuity by Ralph Freedman Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSC:32106020177868

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Virginia Woolf Miscellany by Anonim Pdf

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788728206485

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How Should One Read a Book by Virginia Woolf Pdf

Virginia Woolf dreamed of the Day of Judgment. The "great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen" come to receive their rewards - crowns, laurels, names carved on marble. But, when he sees people coming with books under their arms, God turns to Peter and says: "Look, those need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. "They have loved reading." And this is the essence of her essay - sheer love for the written word: a joy in exploring the thoughts and imaginings of the author. If you sometimes get bogged down in a book, Woolf has produced the perfect self-help manual and motivational guide to reading. If you enjoyed 'How Should One Read a Book?', try 'How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading', by Mortimer J Adler. "To read a novel is a difficult and complex art," says Virginia Woolf. Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) made an impact during her life, but her fame grew in the decades after her death. The English writer helped launch the use of stream-of-consciousness in literature and was a pioneer of 20th century modernism. Arguably her greatest legacy, though, comes from how her writing helped to inspire the feminist movements of the second half of the 20th century. Along with members of her family and other authors, Woolf helped found the Bloomsbury Group. After she married the political theorist and author Leonard Woolf in 1912, they went on the found the Hogarth Press. Virginia also had a long relationship with the writer Vita Sackville-West. The affair featured in the 2018 movie Vita and Virginia', starring Gemma Arterton and Elizabeth Debicki, He best-known works include the novels 'Mrs Dalloway', 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Orlando'.

Author : Alexandra Harris
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780500770979

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Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris Pdf

An ideal introduction to the life and work of Virginia Woolf by an award-winning author: the story of a life lived with intensity from moment to moment and shaped into the lasting patterns of art. In 1907, when she was twenty-five and not yet a published novelist, Virginia Stephen had everything still to prove. She felt herself to be at a crossroads: “I shall be miserable, or happy; a wordy sentimental creature, or a writer of such English as shall one day burn the pages.” Today her prose is still blazing; perhaps it burns brighter than ever. This is the story of how a determined young woman with a notebook became one of the greatest writers of all time. It is a story that sparkles with wit and friendship, language and love, wicked jokes and passionate appreciation of ordinary things. In this illuminating new account, Alexandra Harris uses vivid flashes of detail to evoke Woolf’s changing backgrounds and preoccupations. We move from the close-packed rhythms of a Victorian childhood to the experiments of Bloomsbury and Woolf’s trial-and-error answers to the pressing question of how to live. We see her tackling challenging forms of writing, trying out different voices, following flights of fancy, and returning to earth. Above all, we see her making conscious decisions about what to do next. The book considers each of the novels in context, gives due prominence to a range of Woolf’s dazzlingly inventive essays, traces the contentious course of her “afterlife,” and shows why, seventy years after her death, Virginia Woolf continues to haunt and inspire us.