Introduction: Recollections of the Proceedings | |
Woolf, Reading and Readers | |
Virginia Woolf: Conversation and the Common Reader | p. 1 |
The Common Reader, the Coterie and the Audience of One | p. 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 Modernist | p. 10 |
Fascism and Madness: Woolf Writing Against Modernism | p. 19 |
Preserving a Discourse of Difference and a Difference of Discourse | p. 28 |
Woolf, Class and Empire | |
Woolf's Criticism of the British Empire in The Years | p. 30 |
Taking a Leaf from Virginia Woolf's Book: Empowering the Student | p. 31 |
Vast Nests of Chinese Boxes, or Getting from Q to R: Critiquing Empire in "Kew Gardens" and To the Lighthouse | p. 40 |
Woolf and Contemporary Writers | |
Virginia Woolf from a Latin American Perspective | p. 43 |
Tea with Virginia: Woolf as an Early Mentor to May Sarton | p. 45 |
Reading to Write: The Waves as Muse | p. 47 |
Structures of Common Experience: Learning from Virginia Woolf | p. 57 |
Elegies: Death and Mourning | |
Death and Woolf's Festive Vision | p. 62 |
Eternal Renewal: Life and Death in Virginia Woolf's The Waves | p. 64 |
A Video Project | |
Virginia Woolf, Literary Tourism and Cultural Site-Seeing | p. 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 Guineas | p. 88 |
Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, or The Case of the Declasse Wild Child | p. 96 |
"A Rope to Throw the Reader": The Reading of Rhythm in Virginia Woolf | |
Discussion | p. 105 |
Nuance, Metaphor and the Rhythm of the Mood Wave in Virginia Woolf | p. 107 |
Woolf and War | p. 119 |
Intertextualities: Woolf, Dostoevsky, Yourcenar, Weldon | |
Interiors: Woolf and Dostoevsky | p. 121 |
Dear Reader: Intercepting Romance and Transforming Acculturation in Woolf and Weldon | p. 123 |
"A Necessary Bore" or Brilliant Novelist?: What Yourcenar Understood About Woolf's The Waves | p. 125 |
Reading at Random | |
Virginia Woolf and Murasaki Shikibu: A Question of Perception | p. 133 |
Two Figures Standing in Dense Violet Light: John Milton, Virginia Woolf, and the Epic Vision of Marriage | p. 144 |
The Overlooked Influence of John Waller "Jack" Hills on Virginia Woolf | p. 146 |
Life/Studies: Psychobiography and Virginia Woolf | |
Woolf and Freud: An Analysis of Invisible Presences | p. 148 |
"Like a Lion Seeking Whom He Could Devour": Domestic Violence in To the Lighthouse | p. 154 |
Virginia Woolf, Incest Survivor | p. 164 |
A Phenomenological Reading of Certain Photographs | p. 172 |
Virginia Woolf Seeking Other Worlds With New Language, Vision and Ritual | |
Notes from Underground: Lesbian Ritual In the Writings of Virginia Woolf | p. 177 |
Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts: Fascism in the Heart of England | p. 188 |
Virginia Woolf's Mountain Top--That Persistent Vision | p. 191 |
Time, Embodiment and the Problem Of Separation in the Novels of Virginia Woolf | |
Life Without Boundaries | p. 199 |
Time, Space and Silence | p. 201 |
Hungry To Talk: A Roundtable Discussion of Teaching To The Lighthouse | p. 203 |
"Mrs. Dalloway and The Aeroplane" | p. 208 |
Leonard and Virginia Woolf Working Together | |
Leonard and Virginia Woolf Working Together | p. 209 |
Leonard Woolf, the League of Nations Society and the Journal War and Peace | p. 211 |
Leonard Woolf: The Pivot or Outsider of Bloomsbury? | p. 213 |
The Rhetoric of Virginia Woolf's Feminism | |
Virginia Woolf and Postmodern Feminism | p. 215 |
Tradition, Resistance and Rewriting in Virginia Woolf's Essays | p. 223 |
From Melymbrosia To Between the Acts | |
Why Did Rachel Vinrace Die? Tracing the Clues from Melymbrosia to The Voyage Out | p. 225 |
New Light on Melymbrosia | p. 227 |
Virginia Woolf's Uncommon Reader: Allusions in Between the Acts | p. 230 |
Appendix: Program for Virginia Woolf Miscellanies, June 7-9, 1991 | p. 234 |
Notes on Contributors | p. 238 |
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