Virginia Woolf's Mythic Method

Virginia Woolf's Mythic Method
Author: Amy C Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2022-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9780814215135

Reinvigorates modernist analysis of myth in Virginia Woolf's fiction by illuminating Woolf's use of parataxis to engage both myth and contemporary social and political issues.

The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf
Author: Sue Roe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2000-05-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521625487

Comprehensive study by leading scholars of Virginia Woolf and her novels, letters, diaries and essays.

Virginia Woolf and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel

Virginia Woolf and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel
Author: Emily Blair
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2012-02-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0791479927

In Virginia Woolf and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel, Emily Blair explores how nineteenth-century descriptions of femininity saturate both Woolf's fiction and her modernist manifestos. Moving between the Victorian and modernist periods, Blair looks at a range of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century sources, including the literature of conduct and household management, as well as autobiography, essay, poetry, and fiction. She argues for a reevaluation of Woolf's persistent yet vexed fascination with English domesticity and female creativity by juxtaposing the novels of Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Oliphant, two popular Victorian novelists, against Woolf's own novels and essays. Blair then traces unacknowledged lines of influence and complex interpretations that Woolf attempted to disavow. While reconsidering Woolf's analysis of women and fiction, Blair simultaneously deepens our appreciation of Woolf's work and advances our understanding of feminine aesthetics.

Theorists of the Modernist Novel

Theorists of the Modernist Novel
Author: Deborah Parsons
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2014-08-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134451334

Tracing the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, Deborah Parsons considers the cultural, social and personal influences upon the three writers. Exploring the connections between their theories, Parsons pays particular attention to their work on: forms of realism characters and consciousness gender and the novel time and history. An understanding of these three thinkers is fundamental to a grasp on modernism, making this an indispensable guide for students of modernist thought. It is also essential reading for those who wish to understand debates about the genre of the novel or the nature of literary expression, which were given a new impetus by the pioneering figures of Joyce, Richardson and Woolf.

Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History

Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History
Author: Angeliki Spiropoulou
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2010-03-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230250440

This book analyses the representation of the past and the practice of historiography in the fiction and critical writings of Virginia Woolf, and draws parallels between Woolf's historiographical imagination and the thought of Walter Benjamin, the German philosopher of history and key theorist of modernity.

Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Author: Pamela Caughie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2013-10-31
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135650861

This collection of ten original essays is the first to read Virginia Woolf through the prism of our technological present. Expanding on the work of feminist and cultural critics of the past two decades, this volume offers a sustained reflection on the relationship between Walter Benjamin's analyses of mass culture and technology and Woolf's cultural productions of the 1920s and 1930s. It also brings out the extent to which Woolf was beginning to image the technological society then taking shape. This book takes part in contemporary efforts to rethink modernism as a more globalized and technologized phenomenon

In the Mirror of the Past

In the Mirror of the Past
Author: Tomasz Ratajczak
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2014-09-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1443867675

These days, we are ever more often confronted by overwhelming events. Searching for a way to understand them, we turn to mythic archetypes still present in our culture. The authors of these essays pose questions about the reliability of the archetypes found in tradition, history, and scattered mythologemes. The essays in this collection deal with the presence of mythic time in modern speculative fiction, such as fantasy and alternate histories, and discuss major mythologemes and their functions in popular literature and extra-literary reality. The authors show how mythopoeic fiction becomes a (genetically) modified mythic mirror in which we hope to see answers to vexing questions, or just a reality superior to the ordinary one. In the Mirror of the Past: Of Fantasy and History is a collection of seven essays by American and Polish authors, including Brian Attebery, Terri Doughty, and Marek Oziewicz, with Mircea Eliade’s concept of “return from history to History” as their underlying theme.

Postliberal Theological Method

Postliberal Theological Method
Author: Adonis Vidu
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1597527653

Postliberal Theological Method is a fresh, critical analysis of one of today's most influential theological movements. Drawing on recent thinking in analytic philosophy, particularly Donald Davidson's work on truth and meaning, Vidu raises questions about the linguistic turn in the theology of Hans Frei, George Lindbeck, John Milbank and others.

Feminist English Literature

Feminist English Literature
Author: Manmohan Krishna Bhatnagar
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1999
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9788171568246

Feminism Is A Rapidly Developing Critical Ideology Of Great Promise. It Has Evolved Into A Philosophy Encompassing Diverse Fields Of Human Activity In Society. The Feminist Theory, Its Varied Articulations And Its Ramifications In A Literary Context Constitute A Significant Segment For Critical Endeavour.The Present Anthology Provides A Broad Spectrum On Feminist English Literature With In-Depth Analysis Of The Works Of Kamala Das, Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, Rama Mehta, Shashi Deshpande, Uma Vasudevan, Githa Hariharan, Nina Sibal, Arundhati Roy, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, Jean Rhys, Ellen Glasgow, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Morrison And Others.The Volume Also Contains Articles On Feminist Theory, The Emerging Self Of Women In Indian English Fiction And General Appraisal Of Women Novelists As Regards Their Portrayal Of The Woman S Question.