Virginia Woolf - Feminism, Creativity, and the Unconscious (Hardcover, New)

John R. Maze presents a penetrating psychoanalytic reading of Virginia Woolf's novels from first to last. Underlying their elegant, imaginative, mysterious texture there is revealed a network of sibling rivalry, incestuous attraction and exploitation, sexual repulsion, bizarre fantasies, anger, and fatal despair. Woolf's feminism and pacificism, based on her conscious insight into an authoritarian society, were given passionate conviction by her resentment and irrational guilt over her half-brothers' sexual aggression against her as a vulnerable girl. This found its place in repressed animosity toward her idealized mother, whom she blamed not only for failing to protect her, but also for trying to impose the Victorian female sexist orthodoxy. Deeper still was the childhood conviction that her mother was complicit in the fantasied genital injuries--exacerbated later, she felt, by the males in her life--which prevented her from having children, as her envied sister had. Maze's approach not only reveals the intimate processes of Woolf's imagination, but yields a deeper and richer reading of her texts. An important study for all students and scholars of British 20th-century literature, feminist literary criticism, and critical theory in general.

General

Imprint:	Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Contributions to the Study of World Literature
Release date:	November 1997
First published:	November 1997
Authors:	John Maze
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	232
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-313-30283-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General
LSN:	0-313-30283-9
Barcode:	9780313302831

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