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Romantic Dialogues: Writing the Self in De Quincey and Woolf
No full textVirginia Woolf has been recognised as a pioneering modernist writer creating a new literary voice. It is not unusual to discover in Woolf’s writings the aesthetic and literary traces of those past traditions and influences which have been woven into her modern narratives. One significant, but often overlooked, influence comes from the Romantic period and the essayist, Thomas De Quincey. De Quincey’s stylish essays inspire Woolf’s art. Both writers’ fascination with representing the self (and their devotion to creating a literary thinking about, and narrative of, the subject) indicates a shared affinity between these two writers in spite of important cultural, historical, and social differences between them. My treatment of the self in De Quincey and Woolf is aware of the aesthetic and literary affinities between them and those cultural and historical differences that divide them. Tracing important connections between these two important writers sheds light on the larger concerns and patterns of both the literary scenes of Romanticism and Modernism.
Six chapters in three sections focus on three main aspects of the self central to De Quincey and Woolf—the art of literature, the representation of time and the question of autobiographical writing. Chapter One and Two investigate De Quincey’s literature of power and Woolf’s art of fiction to examine the relationship between literary representation and the self. Chapter Three and Four discuss issues of time and self in De Quincey and Woolf. The final two chapters contend that De Quincey’s and Woolf’s reflections on literary representation, and time as a philosophical problem are embodied in their writings of the self across their respective literary careers. A project of this kind is alert to and enriches a recent burgeoning critical interest from Romanticists and Modernists alike in the exchanges, interchanges, bequests, and legacies of Romanticism to Modernism
Virginia Woolf and Victoria Sackville-West: Orlando as a reflection of their relationship
No full textVirginia Woolf belongs to one of the most significant and original writers of the twentieth century. She was known for her feministic attitudes and denial of traditional gender roles as the social construct. She often criticized the unequal position of women in the patriarchal society and its homophobic tendencies. She used experimental approaches towards literature and writing such as so-called "stream of consciousness" in a form of inner monologue, thus she became the leading figure of the modernistic movement in Britain. The theoretical part of this paper deals with the person of Virginia Woolf as a writer and an intellectual. Her opinions about feminism, gender and androgyny are compared with the general atmosphere of the early twentieth century society. Further, the paper describes the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Victoria Sackville-West which was the impulse for writing the novel Orlando (1928). This novel was inspired by Sackville-West and the story of her life and partially reflected their relationship. The last chapter deals with the novel Orlando itself and how it reflects not only the affinity between Woolf and Sackville-West, but also Virginia Woolf's own thoughts and viewpoints concerning the ambiguity and complexity of gender and other topics such as artistic creativity, inspiration, importance of fame and meaning of human life in general.Teoretická část této práce se zaměřuje na postavu Virginie Woolf jako spisovatelky a intelektuálky. Její názory na feminismus, pohlaví a androgynii jsou srovnávány s obecnou atmosférou ve společnosti na počátku dvacátého století. Dále práce popisuje vztah Virginie Woolf s Victorií Sackville-West, který byl podnětem k napsání románu Orlando (1928). Tento román byl inspirován Sackville-West a jejím životem a částečně odráží jejich vztah. Poslední kapitola se zabývá románem Orlando samotným a jak odráží nejen náklonnost Woolf a Sackville-West, ale také myšlenky a stanoviska samotné Virginie Woolf týkající se nejednoznačnosti a složitosti pohlaví a dalších témat jako je například umělecká kreativita, inspirace, důležitost slávy a význam života člověka vůbec.Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistikyDokončená práce s úspěšnou obhajobo
The 'missing' letters of Leonard Woolf to Nancy Nolan 1943-1969
No full textWhile fan-mail to Leonard Woolf may be regarded as a measure of readers interests in Virginia Woolf s fiction and essays, or indeed of Leonard s own political and autobiographical writings, they are also indicative of readers attraction to Leonard Woolf s character and of his responsive interest in the lives of others. Nancy Nolan s and Evangeline Levine s letters are remarkable for the duration of the correspondence and are expressive of the interior lives of both women, conveying as they do the immediacy of the social and historical conditions of the societies in which they lived (Ireland and the US). In the absence of a substantial collection of Leonard Woolf s replies, it is difficult to assess the interactive nature of this type of correspondence or his personal rather than professional interest in fan-mail. This article describes the serendipitous discovery of a substantial cache of Leonard s letters to Nancy, enabling further work on the significance of the Nolan-Woolf correspondence 1943-1969.peer-reviewe
STORIA DI VENEZIA. L'OTTOCENTO 1797-1918
No full textparte di ISNENGHI MARIO e WOOLF STUART (a cura di), STORIA DI VENEZIA. L'OTTOCENTO E IL NOVECENTO, 3 VOLL
Virginia Woolf in Context
No full textAs a paradigmatic modernist author, Virginia Woolf is celebrated for the ways her fiction illuminates modern and contemporary life. Woolf scholars have long debated how context – whether historical, cultural, or theoretical – is to be understood in relation to her work, and how her work produces new insights into context. Drawing on an international field of leading and emergent specialists, this collection provides an authoritative resource for contemporary Woolf scholarship that explores the distinct and overlapping dimensions of her writings. Rather than survey existing scholarship, these essays extend Woolf studies in new directions by examining how the author is contextualised today. The collection also highlights connections between Woolf and key cultural, political, and historical issues of the twentieth century such as avant-gardism in music and art, developments in journalism and the publishing industry, political struggles over race, gender, and class, and the bearings of colonialism, empire, and war. A valuable critical touchstone for researchers, the volume will also complement graduate scholarship in English literature, literary theory, context studies, and modernism and postcolonial studies
Un ranking internazionale per le riviste di storia
No full textDopo questa introduzione di Ilaria Porciani e Stuart Woolf seguono una serie di interventi che mettono a fuoco modalità e procedure del ranking in Gran Bretagna, Francia, Germania
Some thoughts on other people's attachment to books - and my own
No full textFor Nancy Nolan reading was more than a pastime. She was an ardent collector of Virginia Woolf s novels and biographies and she devoured Virginia s essays. Evening Over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car was a favorite. Nancy sought out reviews of Virginia s novels and essays. Having read a review of The Death of the Moth she wrote to Leonard about the essay Street Haunting: A London Adventure in particular. She was staggered that Desmond MacCarthy, an important critic, did not understand Woolf s portrayal of the fugitive, transient nature of beauty or womanhood (NN to LW no date 1943). Nancy enjoyed MacCarthy s reviews but in this instance she felt he was careless and for her the review was spoilt (NN to LW no date 1943). For Nancy, A Room of One s Own was closest to her heart: It s a delight to read and very stimulating. I love the quick, flashing turns from one point to another, and her way of being puckish when she is being most sedate (NN to LW 17 April 1943). Nancy reread The Waves and The Years one after another. For her, The Waves has a charm of its own (NN to LW 17 April 1943). She was disappointed in The Years, finding that Mrs. Woolf is not herself. The characters are dulled and although it is good, other people could have written it (NN to LW 2 March 1943). She was concerned that Mrs. Woolf s vitality was diminished (NN to LW 2 March 1943). Because of her long correspondences with Leonard (1943-1969), she and her family received regular gifts of Hogarth Press books from him as well as his review copies from other publishers. His first gift to her was a copy of Mrs. Dalloway. One of her final requests of Leonard was to ask if he would sign her newly purchased copy of the fourth volume of his autobiography, Downhill All the Way, which he duly did (LW to NN 28 April 1967).peer-reviewe
The dialectic of self and other in Montaigne, Proust and Woolf
No full textThis thesis investigates the construction of identity in relation to an other. It considers three
writers who, working at moments when the nature of selfhood was an urgent issue, conduct
profound and original enquiries into the question of self- construction, and seeks both to
reassess their contributions to this debate, and, in bringing their preoccupations and methods
to bear upon each other, to open up new ways of approaching and reading their work.
Considering a range of socio-cultural and religious forms of otherness -- the cannibal, the
witch, the Jew, the aristocrat, the woman, the divine -- it embraces material from a number of
important modem critical fields, and suggests how these topics might be combined to offer a
coherent statement about the enduring issue of s elf- fashioning.
The thesis seeks to map out a trajectory of decreasing investment in external communities,
and an increasing perception of the self as a source and agent in the construction of identity.
Looking in turn at the work of Montaigne, Proust and Woolf, it argues that where the Essais
construct complex orders which appropriate the other to reinforce the identity of the self,
Proust and Woolf increasingly, although gradually, and by no means always successfully,
attempt to negotiate a less precisely- engaged relationship between other and self, and to
assign the other a less constitutive role in the realization and expression of identity. The
thesis also considers more briefly contexts in which this trajectory is reversed. To the extent
that they examine modernist subjectivity, Proust and Woolf articulate an anxiety about the
separation of self and world which leads to an attempted recuperation of the integrated orders
depicted by Montaigne
Introduzione a Anon di Virginia Woolf
No full textNegli ultimi anni di vita, Virginia Woolf si discosta in modo sempre più radicale dalla tradizione critico-letteraria della sua epoca. Con Anon, un saggio rimasto incompiuto, la sua riflessione investe il rapporto tra linguaggio parlato e linguaggio scritto e quello parallelo tra lettori/pubblico e autore
Virginia Woolf Consigli a un aspirante scrittore
No full textVirginia Woolf sulla scrittura e la letteratur
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