Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Language.
Title:
Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Language.
Author:
Allen, Judith.
ISBN:
9780748636761
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (145 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction From Michel de Montaigne to the New Media: Reading Virginia Woolf in the Twenty-First Century -- Chapter 1 Those Soul Mates: Virginia Woolf and Michel de Montaigne -- Chapter 2 Changing Titles/Transforming Texts? -- Chapter 3 The Rhetoric of Performance in A Room of One's Own -- Chapter 4 Interrogating 'Wildness' -- Chapter 5 Thinking and Talking/War and Peace -- Chapter 6 Virginia Woolf, 'Patriotism', and 'our prostituted fact-purveyors' -- Conclusion 'Thinking Against the Current' -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Through close readings of Woolf's essays, including 'Montaigne', A Room of One's Own, 'Craftsmanship', Three Guineas, and 'Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid', Allen shows how Woolf's politics, expressed and enacted by her writings, are relevant to our current political situation.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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