Virginia Woolf and the politics of language

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Through close readings of Woolf's essays, including 'Montaigne', A Room of One's Own, 'Craftsmanship', Three Guineas and 'Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid', Allen shows how Woolf's politics are expressed and enacted in her writing. She then works from a w...

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Main Author: Allen, Judith (Virginia Woolf scholar) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2010
Subjects:
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation.
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941 > Language.
Politics in literature.
Electronic books.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • From Michel de Montaigne to the new media : reading Virginia Woolf in the twenty-first century
  • 'Theorising' reading, 'theorising' language. Those soul mates : Virginia Woolf and Michel de Montaigne ; Changing titles/transforming texts?
  • The politics of writing. The rhetoric of performance in A room of one's own ; Interrogating 'wildness'
  • Dialogue and dissent. Thinking and talking/war and peace ; Virginia Woolf, 'patriotism', and 'our prostituted fact-purveyors'
  • 'Thinking against the current'.

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