Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Vision

Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Vision
Title Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Vision PDF eBook
Author Claudia Olk
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 289
Release 2014-08-19
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3110393514

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The category of vision is significant for Modernist texts as well as for the unfolding discourse of Modernism itself. Within the general Modernist fascination with the artistic and experimental possibilities of vision and perception this study looks at Virginia Woolf’s novels and her critical writings and examines the relation between visuality and aesthetics. An aesthetics of vision, as this study argues, becomes a productive principle of narrative. The visual is not only pertinent to Woolf’s processes of composition, but her works create a kind of vision that is proper to the text itself – a vision that reflects on the experience of seeing and renegotiates the relation between the reader and the text. The study investigates key dimensions of aesthetic vision. It addresses vision in the context of theories of aesthetic experience and identifies a semantics of seeing. It analyses functions of symbolic materiality in the presentation of boundaries of perception, modes of temporality and poetic potentialities. In exploring the connections between vision and language, it seeks to provide new perspectives for a reassessment of what occurs in Modernism's relation to vision.

The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf

The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf
Title The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf PDF eBook
Author Jane Goldman
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 268
Release 2001-01-04
Genre Art
ISBN 9780521794589

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Jane Goldman offers a revisionary, feminist reading of Woolf's work. Focusing on Woolf's engagement with the artistic theories of her time, Goldman analyses Woolf's fascination with the Post-impressionist exhibition of 1920 and the solar eclipse of 1927 by linking her response to a much wider literary and cultural context. Lavishly illustrated with colour pictures, this book will appeal not only to scholars working on Woolf, but also to students of modernism, art history, and women's studies.

Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science

Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science
Title Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science PDF eBook
Author Holly Henry
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 236
Release 2003-02-27
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9780521812979

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The Art of Writing Fiction

The Art of Writing Fiction
Title The Art of Writing Fiction PDF eBook
Author Andrew Cowan
Publisher Routledge
Pages 240
Release 2013-11-19
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317861523

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The Art of Writing Fiction guides the reader through the processes of creative writing from journal-keeping to editing, offering techniques for stimulating creativity and making language vivid. Readers will master key aspects of fiction such as structure, character, voice and setting. Andrew Cowan provides an insightful introduction that brings his own well-crafted prose style to bear on the processes and pleasures of writing fiction, offering practical and personal advice culled from his own experience and that of other published writers. He lays open to the reader his own notes, his writing, and the experiences from his own life that he has drawn on in his fiction allowing the reader to develop their own writing project alongside the author as they go through the book.

A Companion to Virginia Woolf

A Companion to Virginia Woolf
Title A Companion to Virginia Woolf PDF eBook
Author Jessica Berman
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 520
Release 2016-03-21
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1118457889

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A Companion to Virginia Woolf is a thorough examination of her life, work, and multiple contexts in 33 essays written by leading scholars in the field. Contains insightful and provocative new scholarship and sketches out new directions for future research Approaches Woolf's writing from a variety of perspectives and disciplines, including modernism, post-colonialism, queer theory, animal studies, digital humanities, and the law Explores the multiple trajectories Woolf’s work travels around the world, from the Bloomsbury Group, and the Hogarth Press to India and Latin America Situates Woolf studies at the vanguard of contemporary literature scholarship and the new modernist studies

Virginia Woolf, Literary Materiality, and Feminist Aesthetics

Virginia Woolf, Literary Materiality, and Feminist Aesthetics
Title Virginia Woolf, Literary Materiality, and Feminist Aesthetics PDF eBook
Author Amber Jenkins
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 216
Release 2023-10-03
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3031324919

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This book interrogates the relationship between the material conditions of Woolf's writing practices and her work as a printer and publisher at the Hogarth Press. In bringing to light her embodied literary processes, from drafting and composition to hand-printing and binding, this study foregrounds the interactions between Woolf's modernist experimentation and the visual and material aspects of her printed works. By drawing on the field of print culture, as well as the materialist turn in Woolf scholarship, it explores how her experience in print, book-design and publishing underlines her experimental writing, and how her literary texts are conditioned by the context of their production. This book, therefore, provides new ways of reading Woolf's modernism in the context of twentieth-century print, material, and visual cultures. By suggesting that Woolf's work at the Hogarth Press sensitized her to the significant role the visual aspects of a text play in its system of representation, it also considers the extent to which materiality informs both her work, as well as her engagement with Bloomsbury formalist aesthetics, which often exaggerate the distinction between visual and verbal modes of expression.

Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism

Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism
Title Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism PDF eBook
Author Ewa Płonowska Ziarek
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 284
Release 2012
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0231161492

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Ewa Ziarek fully articulates a feminist aesthetics, focusing on the struggle for freedom in women's literary and political modernism and the devastating impact of racist violence and sexism. She examines the contradiction between women's transformative literary and political practices and the oppressive realities of racist violence and sexism, and she situates these tensions within the entrenched opposition between revolt and melancholia in studies of modernity and within the friction between material injuries and experimental aesthetic forms. Ziarek's political and aesthetic investigations concern the exclusion and destruction of women in politics and literary production and the transformation of this oppression into the inaugural possibilities of writing and action. Her study is one of the first to combine an in-depth engagement with philosophical aesthetics, especially the work of Theodor W. Adorno, with women's literary modernism, particularly the writing of Virginia Woolf and Nella Larsen, along with feminist theories on the politics of race and gender. By bringing seemingly apolitical, gender-neutral debates about modernism's experimental forms together with an analysis of violence and destroyed materialities, Ziarek challenges both the anti-aesthetic subordination of modern literature to its political uses and the appreciation of art's emancipatory potential at the expense of feminist and anti-racist political struggles.