The Edinburgh companion to Virginia Woolf and contemporary global literature / Jeanne Dubino [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dubino, Jeanne, Author.

Contributor:

Dubino, Jeanne, 1959- editor.

Series:

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Woolf, Virginia.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Influence.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (512 pages).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

Summary:

To capture the many Woolfian currents circulating around the world, the twenty-three chapters in this companion examine the global responses Woolf's work has inspired and explore her worldwide influence. Authors address ways Woolf is received by writers, publishers, reading audiences and academics in countries around the world; how she is translated into multiple languages; and the transformation of her life into global contemporary biofiction.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

List of Abbreviations of Virginia Woolf's Works

Introduction

Part I: Planetary and Global Receptions of Woolf

1. 'What a curse these translators are!' Woolf's Early German Reception

2. The Translation and Reception of Virginia Woolf in Romania (1926-89)

3. The Reception of Virginia Woolf and Modernism in Early Twentieth-Century Australia

4. Dialogues between South America and Europe: Victoria Ocampo Channels Virginia Woolf

5. From Julia Kristeva to Paulo Mendes Campos: Impossible Conversations with Virginia Woolf

6. Three Guineas and the Cassandra Project - Christa Wolf's Reading of Virginia Woolf during the Cold War

7. Virginia Woolf's Literary Heritage in Russian Translations and Interpretations

8. Virginia Woolf's Feminist Writing in Estonian Translation Culture

9. Virginia Woolf in Arabic: A Feminist Paratextual Reading of Translation Strategies

10. Solid and Living: The Italian Woolf Renaissance

11. Tracing A Room of One's Own in sub-Saharan Africa, 1929-2019

Part II: Woolf's Legacies in Literature

12. Virginia Woolf's Enduring Presence in Uruguay

13. Virginia Woolf's Reception and Impact on Brazilian Women's Literature

14. English and Mexican Dogs: Spectres of Traumatic Pasts in Virginia Woolf's Flush and María Luisa Puga's Las razones del lago

15. A New Perspective on Mary Carmichael: Yuriko Miyamoto's Novels and A Room of One's Own

16. Rooms of Their Own: A Cross-Cultural Voyage between Virginia Woolf and the Contemporary Chinese Woman Writer Chen Ran

17. In Search of Spaces of Their Own: Woolf, Feminism and Women's Poetry from China

18. Trans-Dialogues: Exploring Virginia Woolf's Feminist Legacy to Contemporary Polish Literature.

19. Clarissa Dalloway's Global Itinerary: From London to Paris and Sydney

20. Virginia Woolf and French Writers: Contemporaneity, Idolisation, Iconisation

21. The Dream Work of a Nation: From Virginia Woolf to Elizabeth Bowen to Mary Lavin

22. Great Poets Do Not Die: Maggie Gee's Virginia Woolf in Manhattan (2014) as Metaphor for Contemporary Biofiction

23. The Woolf Girl: A Mother-Daughter Story with Virginia Woolf and Lidia Yuknavitch

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-4849-6

1-4744-9607-5

1-4744-4848-8

OCLC:

1243554129