Recasting Social Values In The Work Of Virginia Woolf

Author : Judy S. Reese
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945636830
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recasting Social Values in the Work of Virginia Woolf written by Judy S. Reese and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Emma Simone
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474421695
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world written by Emma Simone and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking fresh ground in Woolfian scholarship, this study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf's textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Drawing on Woolf's novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individual's connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context. Emma Simone argues that at the heart of what it means to be an individual making his or her way in the world, the perspectives of Woolf and Heidegger are founded upon certain shared concerns, including the sustained critique of Cartesian dualism, particularly the resultant binary oppositions of subject and object, and self and Other; the understanding that the individual is a temporal being; an emphasis upon intersubjective relations insofar as Being-in-the-world is defined by Being-with-Others; and a consistent emphasis upon average everydayness as both determinative and representative of the individual's relationship to and with the world.

Author : Nathan Waddell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192548654
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moonlighting written by Nathan Waddell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and why did the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) matter to experimental writers in the early twentieth century? Previous answers to this question have tended to focus on structural analogies between musical works and literary texts, charting the many different ways in which poetry and prose resemble Beethoven's compositions. This book takes a different approach. It focuses on how early twentieth-century writers—chief among them E. M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, Wyndham Lewis, Dorothy Richardson, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf—profited from the representational conventions associated in the nineteenth century and beyond with Beethovenian culture. The emphasis of Moonlighting falls for the most part on how modernist writers made use of Beethovenian legend. It is concerned neither with formal similarities between Beethoven's music and modernist writing nor with the music of Beethoven per se, but with certain ways of understanding Beethoven's music which had long before 1900 taken shape as habit, myth, cliché, and fantasy, and with the influence they had on experimental writing up to 1930. Moonlighting suggests that the modernists drew knowingly and creatively on the conventional. It proposes that many of the most experimental works of modernist literature were shaped by a knowing reliance on Beethovenian consensus; in short, that the literary modernists knew Beethovenian legend when they saw it, and that they were eager to use it.

Author : Vicki K. Janik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313016585
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern British Women Writers written by Vicki K. Janik and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-11-30 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20th century witnessed several major cultural movements, including modernism, anti-modernism, and postmodernism. These and other means of understanding and perceiving the world shaped the literature of that era and, with the rise of feminism, resulted in a particularly rich body of literature by women writers. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 British women writers of the 20th century. Some of these writers were born in England, while others, such as Katherine Mansfield and Doris Lessing, came from countries of the former Empire or Commonwealth. The volume also includes entries for women of color, such as Kamala Markandaya and Buchi Emecheta. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes an overview of the writer's background, an analysis of her works, an assessment of her achievements, and lists of primary and secondary sources. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woolf Studies Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Best Books Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1132 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best Books for Academic Libraries written by and published by Best Books Incorporated. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books recommended for undergraduate and college libraries listed by Library of Congress Classification Numbers.

Author : Linda Nicole Blair
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476627215
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf and the Power of Story written by Linda Nicole Blair and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-03-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Allison Pease
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107052084
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to To The Lighthouse written by Allison Pease and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading international scholars of Woolf and modernism, The Cambridge Companion to To The Lighthouse will be of interest to students and scholars alike.

Author : Sandra M. Gilbert
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1634 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: Early twentieth-century through contemporary written by Sandra M. Gilbert and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long the standard teaching anthology, the landmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has introduced generations of readers to the rich variety of women's writing in English.

Author : Heather Levy
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433109409
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Servants of Desire in Virginia Woolf's Shorter Fiction written by Heather Levy and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Servants of Desire in Virginia Woolf's Shorter Fiction proposes an insight into the ways in which Virginia Woolf engaged with the questions of how class influences working women's occupation of private and public space and how material privilege or economic distress inhibits or encourages their likelihood of obtaining their intellectual, spiritual, and physical desires. This groundbreaking book uses class as the determining factor to assess how servants and working class women occupy private and public space and articulate or fail to realize their desires. Drawing upon published and unpublished holograph and typescript drafts of the shorter fiction in The Monks House Papers as well as the Berg Collection, this book examines Woolf's oscillating patterns of elision, idealization, and contempt for the voices and desires of female servants, lesbians, gypsies, and other disenfranchised women. The Servants of Desire in Virginia Woolf's Shorter Fiction also assesses how the portrayal of working class women in the shorter fiction becomes a vital template for the representation of working class women in Woolf's novels and essays. This study of the cumulative portrayal of the working class woman in all of Virginia Woolf's shorter fiction will also be compelling for anyone interested in social justice, especially for advocates of equality in gender/race/class/sexuality conflicts.