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Virginia Woolf and Poetry (Hardcover)
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Virginia Woolf and Poetry (Hardcover)
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Virginia Woolf's career was shaped by her impression of the
conflict between poetry and the novel, a conflict she often figured
as one between masculine and feminine, old and new, bound and free.
In large part for feminist reasons, Woolf promoted the triumph of
the novel over poetry, even as she adapted some of poetry's
techniques for the novel in order to portray the inner life. Woolf
considered poetry the rival form to the novel. A monograph on
Woolf's sense of genre rivalry thus offers a thorough
reinterpretation of the motivations and aims of her canonical work.
Drawing on unpublished archival material and little-known
publications, the book combines biography, book history, formal
analysis, genetic criticism, source study, and feminist literary
history. Woolf's attitude towards poetry is framed within contexts
of wide scholarly interest: the decline of the lyric poem, the rise
of the novel, the gendered associations with these two genres,
elegy in prose and verse, and the history of English Studies.
Virginia Woolf and Poetry makes three important contributions. It
clarifies a major prompt for Woolf's poetic prose. It exposes the
genre rivalry that was creatively generative to many modernist
writers. And it details how holding an ideology of a genre can
shape literary debates and aesthetics.
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