Essays beginning at the time of her marriage to Leonard Woolf and ending just after the Armistice. More than half have not been collected previously. "In these essays we see both Woolf's work and her self afresh" (Chicago Tribune).
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
ISBN: UOM:39076002000821
Category: Literary Collections
Page: 448
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For Woolf, the essay was born with Montaigne, `the first of the moderns' (25), to
satisfy the need for self-expression, but has become in modern times a vehicle of
vanity and exhibitionism, encouraging its writers to indulge their taste for a good ...
Author: E. Gualtieri
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9780230599147
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 176
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And although Woolf wrote that ' naturally I see Bloomsbury only from my own
angle - not from yours ' ( MoB , 197 ) , her ' own angle ' , her ' stance ' , her ' self in
the essay is shaped not only by being ' commanded by Molly , but by the ...
Author: Leila Brosnan
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015047064632
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 191
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The issue of subjectivity and its significance in Woolf's essays is a key issue in
this book and the essay genre's ... it as a natural form of self-expression. the critic
graham good added to this by calling the essay 'an act of personal witness, the ...
Author: Katerina Koutsantoni
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317001577
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 228
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There are echoes here of T. S. Eliot's 'impersonality' thesis, outlined in his highly
influential essay 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' (1919) in which he argues
that the artist must undergo an act of self-extinction, a subsuming of self into the ...
Author: Laura Marcus
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780746307212
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Page: 96
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The essay examines whether women were capable of producing, and in fact free to produce work of the quality of William Shakespeare, addressing the limitations that past and present women writers face.
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 1981487670
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Page: 122
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Surely a writer with as much imagination and adventurousness as Virginia Woolf
must have been affected to some ... analysis of surfaces O9 -- to go beyond the
camera eye , Both her critical essays on literature + and her novels indicate this .
Author: Anne Heiberg Phillips
Publisher:
ISBN: STANFORD:36105020001785
Category:
Page: 464
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This permeability of self - boundaries is emphasized in travel — especially the
rambling kind , flânerie . But we need not be ... In Woolf's essay , the trial involves
the self risking its own boundaries to the point of self - dissolution . In the end , the
...
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ISBN: IND:30000124951405
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Virginia Woolf, Stuart Nelson Clarke Andrew McNeillie ... I conclude that self
offers no impediment ; self joins in the dance ; self lends itself to the rhythm ; it is
apparently easier to write a poem about oneself than about any other subject .
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
ISBN: STANFORD:36105210596107
Category: English essays
Page: 705
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The rise of the essay is discussed in relation to the rise of the novel and the emergence of empiricism in science, but the main focus of Graham Good’s study is on the inner workings of the essay itself.
Author: Graham Good
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317637783
Category: Literary Collections
Page: 208
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Virginia Woolf Andrew McNeillie, Stuart Nelson Clarke. not fake a good time . I
am not ... proceed to discover what he is . This is the beginning of a stage of
acute self - consciousness which manifests itself in writers otherwise poles
asunder .
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015054278026
Category: Essays
Page: 705
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Clarissa , too , pays a price for her gift , and that price is the doubling and splitting
of the self . Her obvious double is , of course , Septimus Warren Smith , but even
within her actual self , her identities are multiple . She recognizes this fact as ...
Author: Morris Beja
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: UOM:39076001533582
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 253
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There is barely a volume of the Testimonios which does not contain mention of
Virginia Woolf ; several devote detailed discussion to her in a literary ,
biographical or feminist context . In numerous essays on modern literature , Woolf
serves as ...
Author: Janet Beth Greenberg
Publisher:
ISBN: UCAL:C2928769
Category:
Page: 724
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This is a clear and informative introduction to Woolf's life, works, and cultural and critical contexts, explaining the importance of the Bloomsbury group in the development of her work.
Author: Jane Goldman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139457880
Category: Literary Criticism
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