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9780944473092

Virginia Woolf Miscellanies Proceedings of the First Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf

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    9780944473092

  • ISBN10:

    0944473091

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1992-04-23
  • Publisher: University Publishing Association
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Recollections of the Proceedings
Woolf, Reading and Readers
Virginia Woolf: Conversation and the Common Readerp. 1
The Common Reader, the Coterie and the Audience of Onep. 8
A Modernist Aberration: Reading Woolf in the Context of Postmodernism
"What Does it Mean? How Do You Explain it All?" Virginia Woolf: A Postmodern Modernistp. 10
Fascism and Madness: Woolf Writing Against Modernismp. 19
Preserving a Discourse of Difference and a Difference of Discoursep. 28
Woolf, Class and Empire
Woolf's Criticism of the British Empire in The Yearsp. 30
Taking a Leaf from Virginia Woolf's Book: Empowering the Studentp. 31
Vast Nests of Chinese Boxes, or Getting from Q to R: Critiquing Empire in "Kew Gardens" and To the Lighthousep. 40
Woolf and Contemporary Writers
Virginia Woolf from a Latin American Perspectivep. 43
Tea with Virginia: Woolf as an Early Mentor to May Sartonp. 45
Reading to Write: The Waves as Musep. 47
Structures of Common Experience: Learning from Virginia Woolfp. 57
Elegies: Death and Mourning
Death and Woolf's Festive Visionp. 62
Eternal Renewal: Life and Death in Virginia Woolf's The Wavesp. 64
A Video Project
Virginia Woolf, Literary Tourism and Cultural Site-Seeingp. 71
Virginia Woolf and Her Experimentalist Contemporaries: Mansfield, Richardson and Stein
After the Invention of the Gramophone: Hearing the Woman in Stein's Autobiography and Woolf's Three Guineasp. 88
Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, or The Case of the Declasse Wild Childp. 96
"A Rope to Throw the Reader": The Reading of Rhythm in Virginia Woolf
Discussionp. 105
Nuance, Metaphor and the Rhythm of the Mood Wave in Virginia Woolfp. 107
Woolf and Warp. 119
Intertextualities: Woolf, Dostoevsky, Yourcenar, Weldon
Interiors: Woolf and Dostoevskyp. 121
Dear Reader: Intercepting Romance and Transforming Acculturation in Woolf and Weldonp. 123
"A Necessary Bore" or Brilliant Novelist?: What Yourcenar Understood About Woolf's The Wavesp. 125
Reading at Random
Virginia Woolf and Murasaki Shikibu: A Question of Perceptionp. 133
Two Figures Standing in Dense Violet Light: John Milton, Virginia Woolf, and the Epic Vision of Marriagep. 144
The Overlooked Influence of John Waller "Jack" Hills on Virginia Woolfp. 146
Life/Studies: Psychobiography and Virginia Woolf
Woolf and Freud: An Analysis of Invisible Presencesp. 148
"Like a Lion Seeking Whom He Could Devour": Domestic Violence in To the Lighthousep. 154
Virginia Woolf, Incest Survivorp. 164
A Phenomenological Reading of Certain Photographsp. 172
Virginia Woolf Seeking Other Worlds With New Language, Vision and Ritual
Notes from Underground: Lesbian Ritual In the Writings of Virginia Woolfp. 177
Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts: Fascism in the Heart of Englandp. 188
Virginia Woolf's Mountain Top--That Persistent Visionp. 191
Time, Embodiment and the Problem Of Separation in the Novels of Virginia Woolf
Life Without Boundariesp. 199
Time, Space and Silencep. 201
Hungry To Talk: A Roundtable Discussion of Teaching To The Lighthousep. 203
"Mrs. Dalloway and The Aeroplane"p. 208
Leonard and Virginia Woolf Working Together
Leonard and Virginia Woolf Working Togetherp. 209
Leonard Woolf, the League of Nations Society and the Journal War and Peacep. 211
Leonard Woolf: The Pivot or Outsider of Bloomsbury?p. 213
The Rhetoric of Virginia Woolf's Feminism
Virginia Woolf and Postmodern Feminismp. 215
Tradition, Resistance and Rewriting in Virginia Woolf's Essaysp. 223
From Melymbrosia To Between the Acts
Why Did Rachel Vinrace Die? Tracing the Clues from Melymbrosia to The Voyage Outp. 225
New Light on Melymbrosiap. 227
Virginia Woolf's Uncommon Reader: Allusions in Between the Actsp. 230
Appendix: Program for Virginia Woolf Miscellanies, June 7-9, 1991p. 234
Notes on Contributorsp. 238
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