Download or read book The Lectures Essays and Literary Criticism of Virginia Woolf written by Virginia Woolf and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer. She is widely hailed as being among the most influential modernist authors of the 20th century and a pioneer of stream of consciousness narration. Woolf was a central figure in the feminist criticism movement of the 1970s, her works having inspired countless women to take up the cause. She suffered numerous nervous breakdowns during her life primarily as a result of the deaths of family members, and it is now believed that she may have suffered from bipolar disorder. In 1941, Woolf drowned herself in the River Ouse at Lewes, aged 59. This volume contains a fantastic collection of some of Woolf's best essays and lectures on various subjects ranging from American fiction to the works of Jane Austen, Daniel Defoe, and others. Highly recommended for literature lovers and fans of Woolf's seminal work. Contents include: “Virginia Woolf”, “Joseph Conrad”, “'Jane Eyre' and 'Wuthering Heights'”, “Henry James: The Old Order”, “Modern Fiction”, “Defoe”, “Addison”, “Henry James: Within the Rim”, “The Letters of Henry James”, “Sir Walter Scott. The Antiquary”, “American Fiction”, “Jane Austen”, etc. Read & Co. Great Essays is publishing this brand new collection of classic essays now complete with a specially-commissioned biography of the author.
Download or read book A Room of One s Own written by Virginia Woolf and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Room of One's Own is an essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1929. The title comes from the author's theory that 'a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction'. It's considered an important feminist text and discusses how woman have been historically kept from writing because of constraints imposed upon them by the dominant patriarchy. The essay is based on a couple of lectures that Woolf gave at two women's colleges at the University of Cambridge. This book has 85 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1929.
Download or read book The Collected Essays and Letters of Virginia Woolf written by Virginia Woolf and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a fantastic collection of Virginia Woolf's best essays and letters on a range of subjects including feminism, war, the works of other writers, and more. Contents include: “Virginia Woolf”, “Henry James: The Old Order”, “Henry James: Within the Rim”, “The Letters of Henry James”, “David Copperfield”, “Professions for Women”, “The Rev William Cole”, “A Letter to a Young Poet”, “Twelfth Night", “At the Old Vic”, “Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son”, “Reflections at Sheffield Place”, “Craftsmanship”, “The Historian and 'The Gibbon'”, “Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid”, etc. Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer. She is widely hailed as being among the most influential modernist authors of the 20th century and a pioneer of stream of consciousness narration. Woolf was a central figure in the feminist criticism movement of the 1970s, her works having inspired countless women to take up the cause. She suffered numerous nervous breakdowns during her life primarily as a result of the deaths of family members, and it is now believed that she may have suffered from bipolar disorder. In 1941, Woolf drowned herself in the River Ouse at Lewes, aged 59. Other notable works by this author include: “Pattledom” (1925), “A Room of One's Own” (1929), and “The Waves” (1931). Read & Co. Great Essays is publishing this brand new collection of classic essays now complete with a specially-commissioned biography of the author.
Download or read book Virginia Woolf s Common Reader written by Katerina Koutsantoni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Room of One s Own written by Virginia Woolf and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf's playful exploration of a satirical »Oxbridge« became one of the world's most groundbreaking writings on women, writing, fiction, and gender. A Room of One's Own [1929] can be read as one or as six different essays, narrated from an intimate first-person perspective. Actual history blends with narrative and memoir. But perhaps most revolutionary was its address: the book is written by a woman for women. Male readers are compelled to read through women's eyes in a total inversion of the traditional male gaze. VIRGINIA WOOLF [1882–1941] was an English author. With novels like Jacob’s Room [1922], Mrs Dalloway [1925], To the Lighthouse [1927], and Orlando [1928], she became a leading figure of modernism and is considered one of the most important English-language authors of the 20th century. As a thinker, with essays like A Room of One’s Own [1929], Woolf has influenced the women’s movement in many countries.
Download or read book A Room of One s Own written by Virginia Woolf and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2001-11-27 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction—what has that got to do with a room of one’s own? I will try to explain.” So begins what is widely regarded as the foundation text of feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. Probably Woolf’s most readable and entertaining book, it was based on papers delivered at Newnham and Girton Colleges—the two women’s colleges at Cambridge University. Never losing sight of her undergraduate audience, Woolf provides a brief history of women’s writing in English, a scathing account of the subtle and not so subtle ways in which women have been discouraged from writing, and a recommendation for how to change matters: “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” In the process, Woolf takes on women’s economic disadvantages, the underfunding of women’s education, the discouragement of women from certain kinds of (lucrative) work, the ways in which women are socialized into suspicion of each other, and how women participate in their own systemic oppression. Yet, in spite of these weighty subjects, A Room of One’s Own remains throughout funny, light-hearted, engaging for the novice reader while still offering “nuggets” to the worldy-wise. It is, above and beyond all else, a very model of essay writing. This Broadview edition provides a reliable text at a very reasonable price. It contains textual notes but no appendices or introduction.
Download or read book Virginia Woolf s Essays written by E. Gualtieri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-04-06 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although marginal and often neglected genres, the sketch and the essay represented for Virginia Woolf the two forms of writing through which she articulated her understanding of the workings of literary history. In this innovative study, Elena Gualtieri analyses in detail the intersection between essays and sketches in Woolf's non-fiction as part of a far-reaching argument about the scopes and models of feminist criticism, its understanding of the historical process and its position in the panorama of twentieth-century intellectual history.
Download or read book The Complete Common Reader First Second Series 1925 1935 written by Virginia Woolf and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Common Reader: First & Second Series (1925 & 1935)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Common Reader' is a collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, published in two series, the first in 1925 and the second in 1932. The title indicates Woolf's intention that her essays be read by the educated but non-scholarly "common reader," who examines books for personal enjoyment. Woolf outlines her literary philosophy in the introductory essay to the first series, "The Common Reader," and in the concluding essay to the second series, "How Should One Read a Book?" The first series includes essays on Geoffrey Chaucer, Michel de Montaigne, Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Joseph Conrad, as well as discussions of the Greek language and the modern essay. The second series features essays on John Donne, Daniel Defoe, Dorothy Osborne, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Thomas Hardy, among others.
Download or read book The Art of Fiction A Collection of Essays written by Virginia Woolf and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as being among the most influential modernist authors of the 20th century, Woolf was a central figure in the feminist criticism movement of the 1970s whose works inspired countless women to take up the cause. Primarily, Woolf communicated her ideas through her essays, the most famous being “A Room of One's Own” (1929) which explored social injustices and women's lack of free expression. This volume contains an extensive collection of Woolf's seminal essays dedicated to the world of fiction and literature. Contents include: “Virginia Woolf”, “'Jane Eyre' And 'Wuthering Heights'”, “Defoe”, “Modern Fiction”, “On Re-Reading Novels”, “The Common Reader”, “American Fiction”, “David Copperfield”, “Jane Austen”, “George Eliot”, “The Russian Point of View”, “The Art of Fiction”, “The Novels of George Meredith”, etc. A must-have collection for those with a keen interest in feminist literature. Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer. She suffered numerous nervous breakdowns during her life primarily as a result of the deaths of family members, and it is now believed that she may have suffered from bipolar disorder. In 1941, Woolf drowned herself in the River Ouse at Lewes, aged 59. Other notable works by this author include: “To the Lighthouse” (1927), “Orlando” (1928), and “A Room of One's Own” (1929). Read & Co. Great Essays is proudly publishing this brand new collection of classic essays now complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Download or read book A Room of One s Own written by Virginia Woolf and published by Lebooks Editora. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Room of One's Own is an extended essay based on two lectures that Woolf delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at the University of Cambridge, in 1928. In this work, Woolf explores the societal and material conditions required for women to write and produce literature. The central thesis of A Room of One's Own is encapsulated in Woolf's assertion that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Woolf argues that women have been systematically denied the financial independence and private space necessary to create literary works. She examines the history of women in literature and highlights the difficulties they faced in pursuing their artistic ambitions.
Download or read book Virginia Woolf the Intellectual and the Public Sphere written by Melba Cuddy-Keane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-14 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere relates Woolf's literary reviews and essays to early twentieth-century debates about the value of 'highbrow' culture, the methods of instruction in universities and adult education, and the importance of an educated public for the realization of democratic goals. By focusing on Woolf's theories and practice of reading, Melba Cuddy-Keane refutes assumptions about Woolf's modernist elitism, revealing instead a writer who was pedagogically oriented, publicly engaged and committed to the ideal of classless intellectuals working together in reciprocal exchange. Woolf emerges as a stimulating theorist of the unconscious, of dialogic reading, of historicist criticism and of value judgments, while her theoretically informed but accessible prose challenges us to reflect on academic writing today. Combining a wealth of historical detail with a penetrating analysis of Woolf's essays, this 2003 study will alter our views of Woolf, of modernism and of intellectual work.
Download or read book Virginia Woolf The Moment Other Essays written by Virginia Woolf and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-24 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of twenty-nine essays. "[Woolf's] essays...are lighter and easier than her fiction, and they exude information and pleasure.... Everything she writes about novelists, like everything she writes about women, is fascinating.... Her well-stocked, academic, masculine mind is the ideal flint for the steel of her uncanny intuitions to strike on" (Cyril Connolly, New Yorker). Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
Download or read book The Essays of Virginia Woolf 1912 1918 written by Virginia Woolf and published by San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. This book was released on 1986 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays beginning at the time of her marriage to Leonard Woolf and ending just after the Armistice. More than half have not been collected previously. "In these essays we see both Woolf's work and her self afresh" (Chicago Tribune). Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
Download or read book Women and Fiction A Room of One s Own written by Virginia Woolf and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2015 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. "Women and Fiction" was first published in the U.S. in Forum Magazine, a prominent literary journal of the 1920's It is the principle essay and title of a series of lectures Woolff delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. This essay and the Lectures would eventually be published as "A Room of One's Own" in 1929. In this essay Woolf traces the reasons for the very limited achievements among women novelists through the centuries. Why did they fail? They failed because they were not financially independent; they failed because they were not intellectually free; they failed because they were denied the fullest worldly experience. Mrs. Woolf imagines what would have happened to a hypothetical sister of Shakespeare (who possessed all his genius) because she lived in the eighteenth century; she insists that, whatever her gifts, no woman in that age of wife-beating could have written the plays. She shows what did happen in the nineteenth century to the Brontes and George Eliot because they lacked full participation in life; even George Eliot, the "emancipated" woman, lived with a man prosaically in St. John's Wood, while Tolstoy roamed the world and lived with gypsies; and "War and Peace" was as impossible for a woman to write then as "Lear" three centuries before. This short essays remains an important feminist text.
Download or read book Virginia Woolf written by Claire Sprague and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1971 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did feminism really detract from her work? Was Virginia Woolf actually a poet writing in novel form? Did her mental illness affect her writing? How much of her technique was her own and how much did she borrow from Joyce and Proust? Contributors discuss these and other questions in an effort to interpret the work of this controversial and original author. -- From publisher's description.
Download or read book New Feminist Essays on Virginia Woolf written by Jane Marcus and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent feminist criticism has revolutionized the way we view modern literature, none more than the stories and novels of Virginia Woolf. Jane Marcus here collects twelve provocative new essays by women scholars, all of them taking feminist critical approaches to yield fresh readings of Woolf's work. Ellen Hawke's "The Magical Garden of Women" and Jane Marcus's "Thinking Back through Our Mothers" explore Woolf's relationships with women and offer a historical approach to her identification with other women writers. Marcus points out Woolf's technical achievement in the creation of a demotic chorus, the "collective sublime," in direct opposition to the "egotistical sublime" of male writers. Sara Ruddick's "Private Brothers/Public World" compares Woolf's relations with real and fictional brothers. Judy Little revises all previous readings of Jacob's Room by treating it as parody. J. J. Wilson's "Why Is Orlando Difficult?" broaches the central problem of Woolf's most notorious novel. Jane Lilienfeld's investigation of To the Lighthouse provides new insight into the Ramsays' marriage. Suzette Henke's reading of Mrs. Dalloway detects an interlacing of feminism and Christian mysticism in the novel. Madeline Moore's essay on The Voyage Out explains that puzzling novel in terms of the myth of Demeter and Persephone, again a mother-daughter relationship. Susan Squier, overturning established opinion, argues that They Years is one of Woolf's most important novels. Louise DeSalvo's "Shakespeare's Other Sister" analyzes an unpublished Woolf story. Nora Eisenberg uses "Anon," an unpublished manuscript in the Berg Collections, to elucidate Between the Acts.
Download or read book The Common Reader written by Virginia Woolf and published by Bibliotech Press. This book was released on 1925 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A far cry from her wistful and introspective fiction, Woolf's essays on literature read as lively, droll, and conversational. These essays focus on famous literary figures as well as the craft of fiction; written in confident but inviting prose designed specifically for what Woolf called the common reader, they interweave biography, wit, social commentary, and literary analysis. Woolf typically seems disinterested in offering definitive arguments or reaching grand conclusions. She instead concerns herself with viewing a given writer or topic from several interpretive angles so that she might reveal as much about her subject as she can in a single essay, to a broad audience consisting of non-academic readers. Favorite essays included "Notes on an Elizabethan Play," "Modern Fiction," "Outlines," and "How it Strikes a Contemporary." (Michael)
