Woolf Across Cultures

Woolf Across Cultures
Author: Natalya Reinhold
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

22 Papers from an international symposium in Moscow, 2003, that drew speakers from several countries to discuss Virginia Woolf in a global context, translation issues, and Woolf as a World Writer. This is an unprecedented look at a major writer in an international context. This unique volume is based on presentations from the Virginia Woolf Across Cultures symposium held at Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow) and Leo Tolstoy Estate Museum Yasnya Polyana (Tula Region) on June 27-29, 2003. Thirty scholars from Britain, Canada, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, and the United States explore Woolf's work from a wide variety of cross-cultural and language contexts, with a particular emphasis on translation.

Virginia Woolf Icon

Virginia Woolf Icon
Author: Brenda R. Silver
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1999
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780226757469

The proliferation of Virginia Woolfs in both high and popular culture, she argues, has transformed the writer into a "star" whose image and authority are persistently claimed or challenged in debates about art, politics, gender, the canon, class, feminism, and fashion."--BOOK JACKET.

Mrs. Dalloway

Mrs. Dalloway
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2023-12-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death. The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels.

Library of Luminaries: Jane Austen

Library of Luminaries: Jane Austen
Author: Zena Alkayat
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2016-03-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1452157944

Discover the stories behind the stories in this treasurable illustrated biography of Jane Austen. Enchanting illustrations and handwritten text featuring excerpts from Austen's personal letters outline the intimate details of the literary icon's life—her childhood on a farm, the writing of her first novella, her marital woes, the inspiration behind Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, and more. Brimming with delightful details like the objects Austen kept on her desk and how much Emma originally sold for, this beautiful ebook is a lovely new way to celebrate Austen's legacy.

Women Writing Across Cultures

Women Writing Across Cultures
Author: Pelagia Goulimari
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 740
Release: 2018-10-22
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1351586262

This collection brings together an international, multicultural, multilingual, and multidisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners in different media seeking to question and re-theorize the contested terms of our title: “woman,” “writing,” “women’s writing,” and “across.” “Culture” is translated into an open series of interconnected terms and questions. How might one write across national cultures; or across a national and a minority culture; or across disciplines, genres, and media; or across synchronic discourses that are unequal in power; or across present and past discourses or present and future discourses? The collection explores and develops recent feminist, queer, and transgender theory and criticism, and also aesthetic practice. “Writing across” assumes a number of orientations: posthumanist; transtemporal; transnationalist; writing across discourses, disciplines, media, genres, genders; writing across pronouns – he, she, they; writing across literature, non-literary texts, and life. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.

The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf
Author: Susan Sellers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2010-02-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521896940

A revised and fully updated edition, featuring five new chapters reflecting recent scholarship on Woolf.

Travelling Across Cultures

Travelling Across Cultures
Author: Spanish Association for American Studies. Congreso
Publisher: Univ Santiago de Compostela
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2000
Genre: Cultural pluralism
ISBN: 9788481218404

Modernist Communities across Cultures and Media

Modernist Communities across Cultures and Media
Author: Caroline Pollentier
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2019-02-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813052475

Marked by a rejection of traditional affiliations such as nation, family, and religion, modernism is often thought to privilege the individual over the community. The contributors to this volume question this assumption, uncovering the communal impulses of the modernist period across genres, cultures, and media. Contributors show how modernist artists and intellectuals reconfigured relations between the individual and the collective. They examine Dada art practices that involve games and play; shared reactions to the post–World War I rhetoric of Woodrow Wilson; the reception of James Joyce’s Ulysses in Harlem Renaissance circles; the publishing platform of the Bengali literary review Parichay; popular radio shows and news broadcasts; and the universal aspects of film-viewing. They also explore radical reimaginings of community as seen in the collective cohabiting envisioned by Virginia Woolf, the utopian experiment of Black Mountain College, and the communal autobiographies of Gertrude Stein. The essays demonstrate that these pluralist ecosystems based on participation were open to paradox, dissent, and multiple perspectives. Through a transnational and transmedial lens, this volume argues that the modernist period was a breakthrough in a rethinking of community that continues in the postmodern era. Contributors: Hélène Aji | Jessica Berman | Jeremy Braddock | Supriya Chaudhuri | Debra Rae Cohen | Melba Cuddy-Keane | Claire Davison | Irene Gammel

The Social Circulation of the Past

The Social Circulation of the Past
Author: Daniel R. Woolf
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780199257782

Woolf details here the ways in which English men and women first became seriously aware of and interested in their own and the world's past. Previous works have focused exclusively on the writings of a small minority of historians, yet, through using a variety of manuscript and printed sources, this study examines the wider 'historical culture' within which historical and antiquarian studies could emerge.

Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture

Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture
Author: Jane de Gay
Publisher: EUP
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2019-11-27
Genre: Christianity in literature
ISBN: 9781474454889

This wide-ranging study demonstrates that Woolf, despite her agnostic upbringing, was profoundly interested in, and knowledgeable about, Christianity as a faith and a socio-political movement. Jane de Gay provides a strongly contextual approach, first revealing the extent of the Christian influences on Woolf's upbringing, including an analysis of the far-reaching influence of the Clapham Sect, and then drawing attention to the importance of Christianity among Woolf's friends and associates. It shows that Woolf's awareness of the ongoing influence of Christian ideas and institutions informed her feminist critique of society in Three Guineas. The book sheds new light on works including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves by revealing her fascination with the clergy, the Madonna, churches and cathedrals; her interest in the Bible as artefact and literary text; and her wrestling with questions about salvation and the nature of God.