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Mrs Dalloway (Paperback, New edition)
Virginia Woolf; Introduction by Merry M. Pawlowski; Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and
Chair, Department of English, California State
University,Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs
Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and
reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that
both enrich and stultify existence. Society hostess, Clarissa
Dalloway is giving a party. Her thoughts and sensations on that one
day, and the interior monologues of others whose lives are
interwoven with hers gradually reveal the characters of the central
protagonists. Clarissa's life is touched by tragedy as the events
in her day run parallel to those of Septimus Warren Smith, whose
madness escalates as his life draws toward inevitable suicide.
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Orlando (Paperback, New edition)
Virginia Woolf; Introduction by Merry M. Pawlowski; Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and
Chair, Department of English, California State University,
Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most
charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the
figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close
friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries,
the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's
England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience
with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace
of the Great Frost. At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an
ambassador in Costantinople, awakes to find that he is a woman, and
the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of
women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928, a
year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife
and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new
hope and promise for women.
Joseph Conrad and Material Culture offers a fresh approach to
Conrad’s work, especially his African fictions, by grounding its
discussion in the importance of material culture and its role in
shaping the literary art form in modernity. Opening with the
description of a uniquely carved African tusk as both a work of art
and an object of material culture, Merry M. Pawlowski traces the
scenes of African life displayed on that tusk to establish the
major themes of her study of selected works of Conrad’s fiction
and nonfiction. These themes include the presence of
transculturation in colonial Africa, the transformation of the
African fetish into the commodity fetish, the exploitation of the
African continent through mapping, exploration, and trade, and the
rise of the transcendent commodity. Employing cartographic,
materialist, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial theories as
frameworks, Pawlowski offers new insights using details, liminal
presences, in Conrad’s texts enhanced by key illustrations to
expand those details as revelatory of the broader material culture
invoked by the text. The brief mention of a Huntley and Palmers
biscuit tin, the single reference to the Great Exhibition of 1851,
the intriguing hint of a vile scramble for loot, are a few examples
of tantalizing textual presences. Pawlowski explores the presence
of material culture through teasing out gaps, silences, and hints
deployed in Conrad’s works. Revealing the rich context on which
Conrad drew as he wrote, this book offers an opportunity for the
reader to enter Conrad’s world through envisioning the
defamiliarizing spaces from which he drew inspiration for his art.
This book is volume 31 of the series Conrad: Eastern and Western
Perspectives, edited by Wiesław Krajka.
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