Download or read book Virginia Woolf s Unwritten Histories written by Anne Besnault and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf’s Unwritten Histories explores the interrelatedness of Woolf’s modernism, feminism and her understanding of history as a site of knowledge and a writing practice that enabled her to negotiate her heritage, to find her place among the moderns as a female artist and intellectual, and to elaborate her poetics of the "new": not as radical rupture but as the result of a process of unwriting and rewriting "traditional" historiographical orthodoxies. Its central argument is that unless we comprehend the genealogy of Woolf’s historical thought and the complexity of its lineage, we cannot fully grasp the innovative thrust of her attempt to "think back through our mothers." Bringing together canonical texts such as Orlando (1928), A Room of One’s Own (1929), Three Guineas (1938) or Between the Acts (1941) and under-researched ones — among which stand Woolf’s essays on historians and reviews of history books and her pieces on literary history and nineteenth-century women’s literature — this book argues that Woolf’s textual "conversations" with nineteenth-century writers, historians and critics, many of which remain unexplored, are interwoven with her historiographical poiesis and constitute the groundwork for her alternative histories and literary histories: "unwritten," open-textured, unacademic and polemical counter-narratives that keep track of the past and engage politically with the future.
Download or read book Virginia Woolf s Unwritten Histories written by Anne Besnault and published by Among the Victorians and Modernists. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf's Unwritten Histories explores the interrelatedness of Woolf's modernism, feminism and her understanding of history as a site of knowledge and a writing practice that enabled her to negotiate her heritage, to find her place among the moderns as a female artist and intellectual, and to elaborate her poetics of the new: not as radical rupture but as the result of a process of unwriting and rewriting traditional historiographical orthodoxies. Its central argument is that unless we comprehend the genealogy of Woolf's historical thought and the complexity of its lineage, we cannot fully grasp the innovative thrust of her attempt to think back through our mothers. Bringing together canonical texts such as Orlando (1928), A Room of One's Own (1929), Three Guineas (1938) or Between the Acts (1941) and under-researched ones -- among which stand Woolf's essays on historians and reviews of history books and her pieces on literary history and nineteenth-century women's literature -- this book argues that Woolf's textual conversations with nineteenth-century writers, historians and critics, many of which remain unexplored, are interwoven with her historiographical poiesis and constitute the groundwork for her alternative histories and literary histories: unwritten, open-textured, unacademic and polemical counter-narratives that keep track of the past and engage politically with the future.
Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of Virginia Woolf Illustrated written by Virginia Woolf and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 4266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf was one of the foremost authors of the twentieth century, whose ground-breaking novels and essays had a profound impact on modernist literature. This eBook presents the collected works of Virginia Woolf, complemented with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 10) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Woolf’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * 6 novels, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * The rare play penned by Woolf * A wide selection of non-fiction * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * Updated with 2 novels and many rare essays Please note: due to US copyright restrictions, later works cannot appear in this edition. When new texts become available, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. CONTENTS: The Novels The Voyage Out (1915) Night and Day (1919) Jacob’s Room (1922) Mrs. Dalloway (1925) To the Lighthouse (1927) Orlando (1928) The Short Stories The Short Stories of Virginia Woolf The Play Freshwater (1923) The Non-Fiction The Common Reader: First Series (1925) A Room of One’s Own (1929) On Being Ill (1930) London Essays (1931) The Common Reader: Second Series (1932) Walter Sickert: A Conversation (1934) Miscellaneous Essays
Download or read book Virginia Woolf and the Migrations of Language written by Emily Dalgarno and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf's rich and imaginative use of language was partly a result of her keen interest in foreign literatures and languages - mainly Greek and French, but also Russian, German and Italian. As a translator she naturally addressed herself both to contemporary standards of translation within the university, but also to readers like herself. In Three Guineas she ranged herself among German scholars who used Antigone to critique European politics of the 1930s. Orlando outwits the censors with a strategy that focuses on Proust's untranslatable word. The Waves and The Years show her looking ahead to the problems of postcolonial society, where translation crosses borders. In this in-depth study of Woolf and European languages and literatures, Emily Dalgarno opens up a rewarding new way of reading her prose.
Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf Illustrated written by Virginia Woolf and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2013-11-17 with total page 5586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf was one of the foremost authors of the twentieth century, whose ground-breaking novels and essays had a profound impact on modernist literature. For the first time in publishing history, Delphi Classics is proud to present Woolf’s complete works in a single edition. The eBook is complemented with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 10) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Woolf’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL 10 novels, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories and essays * The rare play penned by Woolf, appearing in no other collection * Easily locate the essays or short stories you want to read * Includes Woolf’s memoirs and diary – spend hours exploring the author’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * UPDATED with ‘Contemporary Writers’, rare stories and essays CONTENTS: The Novels The Voyage Out (1915) Night and Day (1919) Jacob’s Room (1922) Mrs. Dalloway (1925) To the Lighthouse (1927) Orlando (1928) The Waves (1931) Flush (1933) The Years (1937) Between the Acts (1941) The Short Stories The Short Stories of Virginia Woolf The Play Freshwater (1923) The Non-Fiction The Common Reader: First Series (1925) A Room of One’s Own (1929) On Being Ill (1930) London Essays (1931) The Common Reader: Second Series (1932) Walter Sickert: A Conversation (1934) Three Guineas (1938) Roger Fry: A Biography (1940) The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942) The Moment and Other Essays (1947) The Captain’s Death Bed and Other Essays (1950) Granite and Rainbow (1953) Contemporary Writers (1965) Books and Portraits (1978) Women and Writing (1979) Miscellaneous Essays The Essays List of Essays and Reviews in Chronological Order List of Essays and Reviews in Alphabetical Order The Memoirs Writer’s Diary (1953) Moments of Being (1976)
Download or read book Virginia Woolf s Good Housekeeping Essays written by Christine Reynier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-twentieth century, Virginia Woolf published ‘Six Articles on London Life’ in Good Housekeeping magazine, a popular magazine where fashion, cookery and house decoration is largely featured. This first book-length study of what Woolf calls ‘little articles’ proposes to reassess the commissioned essays and read them in a chronological sequence in their original context as well as in the larger context of Woolf’s work. Drawing primarily on literary theory, intermedial studies, periodical studies and philosophy, this volume argues the essays which provided an original guided tour of London are creative and innovative works, combining several art forms while developing a photographic method. Further investigation examines the construct of Woolf’s essays as intermedial and as partaking both of theory and praxis; intermediality is closely connected here with her defense of a democratic ideal, itself grounded in a dialogue with her forebears. Far from being second-rate, the Good Housekeeping essays bring together aesthetic and political concerns and come out as playing a pivotal role: they redefine the essay as intermedial, signal Woolf’s turn to a more openly committed form of writing, and fit perfectly within Woolf’s essayistic and fictional oeuvre which they in turn illuminate.
Download or read book Gang of Four s Entertainment written by Kevin J.H. Dettmar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following hard on the explosion of British punk, in 1979 Gang of Four produced post-punk's smartest record, Entertainment! For the first time, a band wedded punk's angry energy to funk's propulsive beats-and used that music to put across lyrics that brought a heady mixture of Marxist theory and situationism to exposing the cultural politics of everyday life. But for an American college student from the suburbs-and, one expects, for many, many others, including British youth-Jon King's and Andy Gill's mumbled lyrics were often all but unintelligible. Political rock 'n' roll is always something of an oxymoron: rock audiences by and large don't tune in to be lectured to. But what can it mean that a band that made pop songs as political theory actively resisted making that theory legible? Coming to terms with the impact of Entertainment! requires us to take the mondegreen-the misunderstood lyric-seriously. The old joke has it that the title of R.E.M.'s debut album should have been not Murmur, but Mumble: true, so far as it goes. But that's the title, too, of rock 'n' roll's Greatest Hits compilation-and that strategic inarticulateness itself, which creates such an important role for the listener, has an important politics.
Download or read book THE COMPLETE WORKS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF written by Virginia Woolf and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 7948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf's 'The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf' is a masterpiece that showcases the evolution of her writing style and literary themes. This collection includes her groundbreaking novels such as 'Mrs. Dalloway' and 'To the Lighthouse,' as well as her renowned essays and short stories. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness narrative technique and exploration of gender roles and societal norms make her works a vital contribution to modernist literature. Readers will be captivated by the complex characters, rich symbolism, and innovative storytelling found throughout this comprehensive collection. Virginia Woolf's ability to dive deep into the psyche of her characters and challenge conventional storytelling make her a significant figure in the literary world. Her writing reflects her own struggles with mental health and societal expectations, adding depth and authenticity to her works. 'The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf' is a must-read for anyone interested in exploring the complexities of human experience and the art of storytelling.
Download or read book Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis written by Elizabeth Abel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A stunning, brilliant, absolutely compelling reading of Woolf through the lens of Kleinian and Freudian psychoanalytic debates about the primacy of maternality and paternality in the construction of consciousness, gender, politics, and the past, and of psychoanalysis through the lens of Woolf's novels and essays. In addition to transforming our understanding of Woolf, this book radically expands our understanding of the historicity and contingent construction of psychoanalytic theory and our vision of the potential of psychoanalytic feminism."—Nancy J. Chodorow, University of California at Berkeley "Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis brings Woolf's extraordinary craftsmanship back into view; the book combines powerful claims about sexual politics and intellectual history with the sort of meticulous, imaginative close reading that leaves us, simply, seeing much more in Woolf's words than we did before. It is the most exciting book on Woolf to come along in some time."—Lisa Ruddick, Modern Philology
Download or read book Virginia Woolf and Heritage written by Jane De Gay and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf was deeply interested in the past - whether literary, intellectual, cultural, political or social - and her writings interrogate it repeatedly. She was also a great tourist and explorer of heritage sites in England and abroad. This book brings together an international team ofworld-class scholars to explore how Woolf engaged with heritage, how she understood and represented it, and how she has been represented by the heritage industry.
Download or read book EBOOK A Short History of Society The Making of the Modern World written by Mary Evans and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2006-12-16 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brilliant inquiry into culture and society over some seven centuries, Mary Evans explores the origins and trajectories of modernity from the Reformation through the Enlightenment to the contemporary period. Her intellectual control of complex ideas and diverse forms of evidence is consistently impressive. Exploring various pessimistic, dystopian strands in European perspectives on modernity by Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Weber and Theodor Adorno, she defends a balanced view of both the negative and positive consequences of modernization. This is historical sociology at its best: judicious, theoretically informed, carefully crafted, grounded in empirical research, and above all intellectually clever. A Short History of Society will prove to be a valuable companion to the student who needs a concise scholarly and sociological overview of modernity." Bryan Turner, National University of Singapore A Short History of Society is a concise account of the emergence of modern western society. It looks at how successive generations have understood and explained the world in which they lived, and examines significant events since the Enlightenment that have led to the development of society as we know it today. The book spans the period 1500 to the present day and discusses the social world in terms of both its politics and its culture. This book is ideal for undergraduate students in the social sciences who are perplexed by the myriad of events and theories with which their courses are concerned, and who need a historical perspective on the changes that shaped the contemporary world.
Download or read book Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant garde written by Christine Froula and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-22 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde traces the dynamic emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars and rising threats of totalitarianism. Educated informally in her father's library and in Bloomsbury's London extension of Cambridge, Virginia Woolf came of age in the prewar decades, when progressive political and social movements gave hope that Europe "might really be on the brink of becoming civilized," as Leonard Woolf put it. For pacifist Bloomsbury, heir to Europe's unfinished Enlightenment project of human rights, democratic self-governance, and world peace—and, in E. M. Forster's words, "the only genuine movement in English civilization"— the 1914 "civil war" exposed barbarities within Europe: belligerent nationalisms, rapacious racialized economic imperialism, oppressive class and sex/gender systems, a tragic and unnecessary war that mobilized sixty-five million and left thirty-seven million casualties. An avant-garde in the twentieth-century struggle against the violence within European civilization, Bloomsbury and Woolf contributed richly to interwar debates on Europe's future at a moment when democracy's triumph over fascism and communism was by no means assured. Woolf honed her public voice in dialogue with contemporaries in and beyond Bloomsbury— John Maynard Keynes and Roger Fry to Sigmund Freud (published by the Woolfs'Hogarth Press), Bertrand Russell, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Katherine Mansfield, and many others—and her works embody and illuminate the convergence of aesthetics and politics in post-Enlightenment thought. An ambitious history of her writings in relation to important currents in British intellectual life in the first half of the twentieth century, this book explores Virginia Woolf's narrative journey from her first novel, The Voyage Out, through her last, Between the Acts.
Download or read book Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives written by Marilyn Farwell and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains seven essays addressing topics including lesbian narrative; the lesbian subject; the romantic and the heroic lesbian narratives; and the postmodern lesbian text. Authors discussed include Adrienne Rich, Marilyn Hacker, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Gloria Naylor, and Jeannette Winterson. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Virginia Woolf written by Julia Briggs and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Briggs has written a chronological exploration of Woolf's life that reads her life through her books, using the novels to create a new form of biography. Each chapter is illustrated with a sample of Woolf's original manuscript.
Download or read book Virginia Woolf written by Eric Warner and published by Springer. This book was released on 1984-07-12 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Proceedings of the Virginia Woolf Centenary Conference, which took place on 20-22 September, 1982 at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge"--Introd.
Download or read book E M Forster Centenary Revaluations written by Judith Scherer Herz and published by Springer. This book was released on 1982-03-25 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Virginia Woolf Chronology written by Edward Bishop and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-12-13 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An attempt to draw together the important details of Woolf's working life in a single volume, allowing the reader to trace her development as novelist, feminist and literary journalist against the background of the age.
