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Modernism is commonly perceived as a response to the cataclysmic
events of the early twentieth century. To what extent then can we
explain its continued persistence? Madelyn Detloff argues for
modernism's relevance to our own age, a time of escalating loss,
retribution and desire. Some of the social formations that inspired
modernist cultural production - xenophobic nationalism and imperial
hubris - are still with us. Writers such as Virginia Woolf and
Gertrude Stein, who saw themselves as outsiders with a precarious
sense of belonging to their dominant culture, are, Detloff claims,
still able to give us insight into our contemporary narratives of
loss, recovery, memory and nation. Detloff extends her
conceptualisation to include current writers like Pat Barker and
Hanif Kureshi, who have taken up the modernist thread in their own
work; the result is an ambitious study that will appeal to all
students and scholars of modernism.
In The Value of Virginia Woolf, Madelyn Detloff explores the
writings of Virginia Woolf from her early texts to her challenging
and inventive novels. Detloff demonstrates why Woolf has enduring
value for our own time, both as a defender of modernist
experimentation and as a novelist of innovation and poetic vision
who also exhibits moments of intense insight and philosophical
depth. A famously enigmatic figure, Woolf's literary works offer
different rewards to different readers. The Value of Virginia Woolf
examines not only the significance of her most celebrated fiction
but the function of time and allegory, natural and urban spaces,
voice and language that give Woolf's writings their perennial
appeal.
In The Value of Virginia Woolf, Madelyn Detloff explores the
writings of Virginia Woolf from her early texts to her challenging
and inventive novels. Detloff demonstrates why Woolf has enduring
value for our own time, both as a defender of modernist
experimentation and as a novelist of innovation and poetic vision
who also exhibits moments of intense insight and philosophical
depth. A famously enigmatic figure, Woolf's literary works offer
different rewards to different readers. The Value of Virginia Woolf
examines not only the significance of her most celebrated fiction
but the function of time and allegory, natural and urban spaces,
voice and language that give Woolf's writings their perennial
appeal.
Modernism is commonly perceived as a response to the cataclysmic
events of the early twentieth century. To what extent then can we
explain its continued persistence? Madelyn Detloff argues for
modernism's relevance to our own age, a time of escalating loss,
retribution and desire. Some of the social formations that inspired
modernist cultural production - xenophobic nationalism and imperial
hubris - are still with us. Writers such as Virginia Woolf and
Gertrude Stein, who saw themselves as outsiders with a precarious
sense of belonging to their dominant culture, are, Detloff claims,
still able to give us insight into our contemporary narratives of
loss, recovery, memory and nation. Detloff extends her
conceptualisation to include current writers like Pat Barker and
Hanif Kureshi, who have taken up the modernist thread in their own
work; the result is an ambitious study that will appeal to all
students and scholars of modernism.
This anthology presents important early essays that laid the
foundation for queer studies of the Bloomsbury Group together with
new essays that build upon this foundation to provide
ground-breaking work on Bloomsbury figures and cultural
achievements. As a whole, Queer Bloomsbury stands alone as a
wide-ranging and critical resource that traces the cultural,
ideological, and aesthetic facets of Bloomsbury's development as a
queer intellectual and aesthetic subculture.
This anthology presents important early essays that laid the
foundation for queer studies of the Bloomsbury Group together with
new essays that build upon this foundation to provide
ground-breaking work on Bloomsbury figures and cultural
achievements. As a whole, Queer Bloomsbury stands alone as a
wide-ranging and critical resource that traces the cultural,
ideological, and aesthetic facets of Bloomsbury's development as a
queer intellectual and aesthetic subculture.
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