G20 Donahue, Delia. THE NOVELS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF. Rome: Bulzoni, 1977. Fresh, though irreverently negative view of the nine novels. Donahue recapitulates the biography, stressing the class snobbery, emotional sterility, and intellectual ...
This volume collects the complete writings of Virginia Woolf: 8 novels, 3 'biographies,' 46 short stories, 606 essays, 1 play, her diary and some letters.
This book explains a great deal about Virginia Woolf's attitude to writing and her preoccupation with the techniques of painting, and makes intelligible much about her aims and methods by setting them in their social and historical context.
A final chapter explores the problematic relation of the book to the genre of the novel.
Contains excerpts from the twentieth-century feminist author's novels, letters, and diaries, with descriptive accounts and criticism by her family, friends, and associates.
An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, "A Writer's Diary" was drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years.
This view , although correctly stressing the political force of Woolf's work as a whole , does not , I think , take account of Woolf's explicitly stated desire to avoid propaganda in her novels . Virginia Woolf sources Essays by ...
Susan Dick discusses Woolf's use of 'Literary realism in . . . The Waves' in Sue Roe and Susan Sellers, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), see esp. p. 68. 37.
J. STUDIES OF THE VOYAGE OUT ( 1915 ) The following section is subdivided into two parts : i . ... Blackstone ( G9 ) , Daiches ( 616 ) , Delattre ( 617 ) , Donahue ( G20 ) , Finke ( G23 ) , Fleishman ( G24 ) , Gorsky ( G28 ) , Gruber ...
Originally published in 1942, this book presents the 1941 Rede Lecture by E. M. Forster which celebrates Virginia Woolf's colossal contribution to literature and challenges her work as both a fellow writer and friend.
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lustre drop green upon the marble. The feathers of parakeets – their harsh cries – sharp blades of palm trees – green too; green needles glittering in the sun. But the hard glass drips on to the marble; the pools hover above the desert ...
Virginia Woolf allowed Kitty's charm a fair play in the shape of Mrs Dalloway , but finally laid this ghost with the portrait of Minta Doyle as charming victim of masterful Mrs Ramsay . Ten years later , when Mrs Ramsay is dead and Lily ...
Part of Shakespeare's power lay in his surface realism, she thought: 'one c[oul]d work out a theory of fiction &c on ... It begins in spring, with all the clocks of the city 'gathering their forces together; they seemed to be whirring a ...
'Women and Fiction' for their ability to avoid partisanship and to remain 'anonymous' in their writing: The genius of Jane Austen and Emily Brontë is never more convincing than in their power to . . . hold on their way unperturbed by ...
David Dowling GUSTAVE FLAUBERT David Roe E. M. FORSTER, Norman Page WILLIAM GOLDING James Gindin GRAHAM GREENE Neil McEwan HENRY Ağ Alan Bellringer D. H. LAWRENCE. G. M. Hyde DORIS LESSING Ruth Whittaker MALCOLM LOWRY.
... 121 n.25 Dick, Susan, 114 n.28, 121 n.33 Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes, 28 Dickinson, Violet, 42 Truth', Eisenberg, Nora, 116 n.17 Eliot, George, 67 Eliot, T. S., 35, 44, 62, 68, 69 Murder in the Cathedral, 68 “Poetry and Drama', 68, ...
She was original, passionate, vivid, dedicated to her art. Yet most biographies of her still revolve around her social life and the Bloomsbury set. In this fresh, absorbing book, Julia Briggs puts the writing back at the center of the life.
Following Woolf’s lead, psychologist Katherine Dalsimer moves backward and forward between the work of Woolf’s maturity and her early journals, letters, and unpublished juvenilia to illuminate the process by which Woolf became a writer.
It is not often that biography offers the satisfactions of great fiction -- but this is clearly what Hermione Lee has achieved.