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Reading Virginia Woolf (Hardcover)
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Reading Virginia Woolf (Hardcover)
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The pleasure and excitement of exploring Virginia Woolf's writings
is at the heart of this book by a highly respected Woolf critic and
biographer. Julia Briggs reconsiders Woolf's work - from some of
her earliest fictional experiments to her late short story, 'The
Symbol', and from the most to the least familiar of her novels -
from a series of highly imaginative and unexpected angles.
Individual essays analyse Woolf's neglected second novel, Night and
Day and investigate her links with other writers (Byron,
Shakespeare), her ambivalent attitudes to 'Englishness' and to
censorship, her fascination with transitional places and moments,
with the flow of time (and its relative nature), her concern with
visions and revision and with printing and the writing process as a
whole. We watch Woolf as she typesets an extraordinarily complex
high modernist poem (Hope Mirrlees's 'Paris'), and as she revises
her novels so that their structures become formally - and even
numerologically - significant. A final essay examines the
differences between Woolf's texts as they were first published in
England and America, and the further changes she occasionally made
after publication, changes that her editors have been slow to
acknowledge. Julia Briggs brings to these discussions an extensive
knowledge of Woolf both as a scholar and as an editor. She records
her findings and observations in a lively, graceful and
approachable style that will entice readers to delve further and
more meaningfully into Woolf's work. Features * Addresses a wide
range of familiar and less familiar texts, including Woolf's short
stories. * Opens up difficult texts in an inviting style. * Covers
aspects of Woolf's work that have been consistently neglected or
have never been considered before.
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