The Unknown Virginia WoolfCUP Archive, 1995 - 289 Seiten Since its first publication in 1978, Roger Poole's The Unknown Virginia Woolf has achieved recognition as one of the classic studies of Woolf's life and work. Poole revised the conventional view of Woolf as 'mad' by treating her breakdown as socially intelligible. The theme of madness was reconceived in order to provide an intellectual biography that traced Woolf's fear and resentment to her childhood and adolescence. Poole uses the phenomenological concept of embodiment to address the concealed intentionality that lies behind apparently deviant behaviour. He shows how Woolf's challenge to accepted conventions of communication, in both her life and work, is an appeal for meaning. Long considered radical and iconoclastic, this book now occupies a central place in Woolf, gender, and modernist studies. This new edition includes a specially written preface evaluating recent developments in Woolf studies, literary theory and contemporary feminist criticism. |
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The unknown Virginia Woolf | 1 |
Rosyflowered fruit tree and beak of brass | 7 |
The body the mirror Gerald and George | 21 |
The terrors of engagement | 33 |
Full bellies dull minds | 54 |
What exactly do you mean by that? | 59 |
Leonards three problems | 74 |
The ordeal of 1912 | 103 |
Forbade childbirth penalised despair | 167 |
The birds talking Greek | 173 |
Was Septimus Smith insane? | 185 |
Virginias embodiment | 198 |
Führer Duce Tyrant | 216 |
Incompatibility | 232 |
oak and triple brass were around her breast | 246 |
Death by shrapnel or death by water | 259 |
Butter cream and eggs and bacon | 127 |
Virginias own view negated and disconfirmed | 137 |
Taboo against eating guilt | 148 |
Conspiracy | 159 |
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Bibliography to the fourth edition | 283 |
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