Reading Virginia Woolf.
Title:
Reading Virginia Woolf.
Author:
Briggs, Julia.
ISBN:
9780748626953
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (249 pages)
Contents:
COVER -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Essay 1 Virginia Woolf Reads Shakespeare: or, Her Silence on Master William -- Essay 2 'The Proper Writing of Lives': Biography versus Fiction in Woolf's Early Work -- Essay 3 Night and Day: The Marriage of Dreams and Realities -- Essay 4 Reading People, Reading Texts: 'Byron and Mr Briggs' -- Essay 5 'Modernism's Lost Hope': Virginia Woolf, Hope Mirrlees and the Printing of Paris -- Essay 6 The Search for Form (i): Fry, Formalism and Fiction -- Essay 7 The Search for Form (ii): Revision and the Numbers of Time -- Essay 8 'This Moment I Stand On': Virginia Woolf and the Spaces in Time -- Essay 9 'Like a Shell on a Sandhill': Woolf's Images of Emptiness -- Essay 10 Constantinople: At the Crossroads of the Imagination -- Essay 11 The Conversation behind the Conversation: Speaking the Unspeakable -- Essay 12 'Sudden Intensities': Frame and Focus in Woolf's Later Short Stories -- Essay 13 'Almost Ashamed of England Being so English': Woolf and Ideas of Englishness -- Essay 14 Between the Texts: Virginia Woolf's Acts of Revision -- Index.
Abstract:
The pleasure and excitement of exploring Virginia Woolfâs writings is at the heart of this book as Julia Briggs reconsiders Woolfâs work - from some of her earliest fictional experiments to her late short story, âThe Symbolâ, and from the most to the least familiar of her novels.
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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