The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf
The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf

Author: Jane Goldman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-09-14

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1139457888

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For students of modern literature, the works of Virginia Woolf are essential reading. In her novels, short stories, essays, polemical pamphlets and in her private letters she explored, questioned and refashioned everything about modern life: cinema, sexuality, shopping, education, feminism, politics and war. Her elegant and startlingly original sentences became a model of modernist prose. 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. It covers the major works in detail, including To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, The Waves and the key short stories. As well as providing students with the essential information needed to study Woolf, Jane Goldman suggests further reading to allow students to find their way through the most important critical works. All students of Woolf will find this a useful and illuminating overview of the field.

The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf
The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

Author: Susan Sellers

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-02-18

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 0521896940

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

The Cambridge Companion to To The Lighthouse
The Cambridge Companion to To The Lighthouse

Author: Allison Pease

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1107052084

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Written by leading international scholars of Woolf and modernism, The Cambridge Companion to To The Lighthouse will be of interest to students and scholars alike.

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism
The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism

Author: Pericles Lewis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-05-03

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1316224309

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More than a century after its beginnings, modernism still has the power to shock, alienate or challenge readers. Modernist art and literature remain thought of as complex and difficult. This introduction explains in a readable, lively style how modernism emerged, how it is defined, and how it developed in different forms and genres. Pericles Lewis offers students a survey of literature and art in England, Ireland and Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century. He also provides an overview of critical thought on modernism and its continuing influence on the arts today, reflecting the interests of current scholarship in the social and cultural contexts of modernism. The comparative perspective on Anglo-American and European modernism shows how European movements have influenced the development of English-language modernism. Illustrated with works of art and featuring suggestions for further study, this is the ideal introduction to understanding and enjoying modernist literature and art.

The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel
The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel

Author: Marina MacKay

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-11-25

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1139493574

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Beginning its life as the sensational entertainment of the eighteenth century, the novel has become the major literary genre of modern times. Drawing on hundreds of examples of famous novels from all over the world, Marina MacKay explores the essential aspects of the novel and its history: where novels came from and why we read them; how we think about their styles and techniques, their people, plots, places, and politics. Between the main chapters are longer readings of individual works, from Don Quixote to Midnight's Children. A glossary of key terms and a guide to further reading are included, making this an ideal accompaniment to introductory courses on the novel.

Virginia Woolf in Context
Virginia Woolf in Context

Author: Bryony Randall

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-12-17

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 110700361X

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Covering a wide range of historical, theoretical, critical and cultural contexts, this collection studies key issues in contemporary Woolf studies.

A Room of One's Own
A Room of One's Own

Author: Virginia Woolf

Publisher: Modernista

Published: 2024-05-30

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13: 9180949509

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Virginia Woolf's playful exploration of a satirical »Oxbridge« became one of the world's most groundbreaking writings on women, writing, fiction, and gender. A Room of One's Own [1929] can be read as one or as six different essays, narrated from an intimate first-person perspective. Actual history blends with narrative and memoir. But perhaps most revolutionary was its address: the book is written by a woman for women. Male readers are compelled to read through women's eyes in a total inversion of the traditional male gaze. VIRGINIA WOOLF [1882–1941] was an English author. With novels like Jacob’s Room [1922], Mrs Dalloway [1925], To the Lighthouse [1927], and Orlando [1928], she became a leading figure of modernism and is considered one of the most important English-language authors of the 20th century. As a thinker, with essays like A Room of One’s Own [1929], Woolf has influenced the women’s movement in many countries.

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world
Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world

Author: Emma Simone

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2017-04-19

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1474421687

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Breaking fresh ground in Woolfian scholarship, this study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf's textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Drawing on Woolf's novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individual's connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context. Emma Simone argues that at the heart of what it means to be an individual making his or her way in the world, the perspectives of Woolf and Heidegger are founded upon certain shared concerns, including the sustained critique of Cartesian dualism, particularly the resultant binary oppositions of subject and object, and self and Other; the understanding that the individual is a temporal being; an emphasis upon intersubjective relations insofar as Being-in-the-world is defined by Being-with-Others; and a consistent emphasis upon average everydayness as both determinative and representative of the individual's relationship to and with the world.

The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell
The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell

Author: John Rodden

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-06-07

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1107376874

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Arguably the most influential political writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains a crucial voice for our times. Known world-wide for his two best-selling masterpieces Nineteen Eighty-Four, a gripping portrait of a dystopian future, and Animal Farm, a brilliant satire on the Russian Revolution, Orwell has been revered as an essayist, journalist and literary-political intellectual, and his works have exerted a powerful international impact on the post-World War Two era. This Introduction examines Orwell's life, work and legacy, addressing his towering achievement and his ongoing appeal. Combining important biographical detail with close analysis of his writings, the book considers the various genres in which Orwell wrote: the realistic novel, the essay, journalism and the anti-utopia. Ideally suited for readers approaching Orwell's work for the first time, the book concludes with an extended reflection on why George Orwell has enjoyed a literary afterlife unprecedented among modern authors in any language.