The Cambridge Companion to Virginia WoolfSellers Susan, Sue Roe, Susan Sellers, Sue Roe, Dpa Cambridge University Press, 8 mai 2000 - 286 pages Virginia Woolf is now hailed as one of the greatest, most innovative writers of our age. This landmark collection of essays by leading scholars addresses the full range of her intellectual perspectives--literary, artistic, philosophical and political. The volume provides original, new readings of all nine novels and fresh insights into Woolf's letters, diaries and essays, allowing easy reference to individual themes and texts. The progress of Woolf's thinking is revealed from Bloomsbury aestheticism through her hatred of censorship, corruption and hierarchy to her concern with all aspects of modernism. |
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Avis d'utilisateur - djjazzyd - LibraryThing"If you need a critical opinion on Virginia Woolf, buy this book. I was originally apprehensive because I have only read a few of her novels and her essay "A Room Of One's Own". Nevertheless, there's ... Consulter l'avis complet
Table des matières
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| 50 | |
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Virginia Woolfs essays | 91 |
Virginia Woolfs diaries and letters | 109 |
Virginia Woolf and the language of authorship | 127 |
Virginia Woolf and modernism | 146 |
The impact of postimpressionism | 164 |
The sociopolitical vision of the novels | 191 |
Woolfs feminism and feminisms Woolf | 209 |
Virginia Woolf and psychoanalysis | 245 |
Guide to further reading | 273 |
Index | 279 |
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