Reading Virginia Woolf / Julia Briggs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Briggs, Julia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Woolf, Virginia.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The pleasure and excitement of exploring Virginia Woolfs writings is at the heart of this book as Julia Briggs reconsiders Woolfs work - from some of her earliest fictional experiments to her late short story The Symbol and from the most to the least familiar of her novels.

Contents:

Virginia Woolf reads Shakespeare: or, her silence on Master William

'The proper writing of lives'': biography versus fiction in Woolf's early work

Night and day: the marriage of dreams and realities

Reading people, reading texts: 'Byron and Mr Briggs'

'Modernism's lost hope': Virginia Woolf, Hope Mirrlees and the printing of Paris

The search for form (i): Fry, formalism and fiction

The search for form (ii): revision and the numbers of time

'This moment I stand on': Virginia Woolf and the spaces in time

'Like a shell on a sandhill': Woolf's images of emptiness

Constantinople: at the crossroads of the imagination

The conversation behind the conversation: speaking the unspeakaable

'Sudden intensities': frame and focus in Woolf's later short stories

'Almost ashamed of England being so English': Woolf and ideas of Englishness

Between the texts: Woolf's acts of revision.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-7486-5185-3

1-322-98112-4

1-280-53847-3

9786610538478

0-7486-2695-6

OCLC:

475991611

Publisher Number:

9780748626953