Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory
Title | Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Ryan |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2015-09-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0748676457 |
Derek Ryan demonstrates how materiality is theorised in Woolf's writings by focusing on the connections she makes between culture and nature, embodiment and environment, human and nonhuman, life and matter.
Virginia Woolf, Europe, and Peace
Title | Virginia Woolf, Europe, and Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Adkins |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2020-07-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1949979385 |
This volume asks how Woolf conceptualized peace by exploring various experimental forms she created in response to violence and crisis. Across fifteen chapters written by an international array of scholars, this book draws out theoretical dimensions of Woolf’s aesthetics and deepens our understanding of her writing about war, ethics, feminism and European culture.
Virginia Woolf, Fashion and Literary Modernity
Title | Virginia Woolf, Fashion and Literary Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | R. S. Koppen |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2009-08-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0748641564 |
Virginia Woolf, Fashion and Literary Modernity places WoolfA's writing in the context of sartorial practice from the Victorian period to the 1930s, and theories of dress and fashion from Thomas Carlyle to Walter Benjamin, Wyndham Lewis and J.C. Flugel. Bringing together studies in fashion, body culture and modernism, the book explores the modern fascination with sartorial fashion as well as with clothes as objects, signs, things, and embodied practice.Fashion was deeply implicated with the nineteenth-century modern and remained in focus for the modernities that continued to be proclaimed in the early decades of the following century. Clothing connects with the modernist topoi of the threshold, the trace and the interface; it is the place where character becomes image and where relations between subject and object, organic and inorganic play themselves out in a series of encounters and ruptures. Clothes also facilitate explorations in modern materialism, for instance as informing surrealist attempts to think the materiality of things outside the system of commodities and their fetishisation. WoolfA's work as cultural analyst and writer of fiction provides illuminating illustrations of all of these aspects, "e;thinking through clothes"e; in representations of the present, investigations of the archives of the past, and projections for the future.Key Features: *Contributes new research to Woolf and Modernism studies*Explores the significance of textual representations of dress and sartorial fashion in modernist literature *Interdisciplinary approach which brings together studies of fashion, culture and literature*Adds a specific author focused analysis to current work on cultural embodiment and performance
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 |
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.
Virginia Woolf in Context
Title | Virginia Woolf in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Bryony Randall |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 521 |
Release | 2012-12-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 110700361X |
Covering a wide range of historical, theoretical, critical and cultural contexts, this collection studies key issues in contemporary Woolf studies.
Virginia Woolf and Heritage
Title | Virginia Woolf and Heritage PDF eBook |
Author | Jane De Gay |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1942954425 |
Virginia Woolf was deeply interested in the past - whether literary, intellectual, cultural, political or social - and her writings interrogate it repeatedly. She was also a great tourist and explorer of heritage sites in England and abroad. This book brings together an international team ofworld-class scholars to explore how Woolf engaged with heritage, how she understood and represented it, and how she has been represented by the heritage industry.
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 |
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