Virginia Woolf S Portraits Of Russian Writers
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Virginia Woolf s Portraits of Russian Writers
Author | : Darya Protopopova |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2019-02-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781527527829 |
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Virginia Woolf always stayed ahead of her time. Championing gender equality when women could not vote; publishing authors from Pakistan, France, Austria and other parts of the world, while nationalism in Britain was on the rise; and befriending outcasts and social pariahs. As such, what could have possibly interested her in the works of nineteenth-century Russian writers, austere and, at times, misogynistic thinkers preoccupied with peasants, priests, and paroxysms of the soul? This study explains the chronological and cultural paradox of how classic Russian fiction became crucial to Woolf’s vision of British modernism. We follow Woolf as she begins to learn Russian, invents a character for a story by Dostoevsky, ponders over Sophia Tolstoy’s suicide note, and proclaims Chekhov a truly ‘modern’ writer. The book also examines British modernists’ fascination with Russian art, looking at parallels between Roger Fry’s articles on Russian Post-Impressionists and Woolf’s essays on Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev.
Virginia Woolf and the Russian Point of View
Author | : R. Rubenstein |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2009-09-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780230100558 |
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This book brings together Virginia Woolf's essays and book reviews on Russian literature; her unpublished reading notes on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Turgenev; and new and insightful scholarly commentary concerning her response to each of the major Russian writers.
Books and Portraits
Author | : Virginia Woolf,Mary Lyon |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : 0586047999 |
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Forty-five previously uncollected literary sketches, reviews, and profiles by the distinguished modern English novelist include writings on women and women authors, Russian literature, and such Americans as Emerson, Thoreau, and Melville.
Love and Russian Literature
Author | : Ira B. Nadel |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2023-11-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781350115026 |
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Russia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism. In this new book, Ira Nadel, charts the story of that influence through the work of some of the key figures in British literature across the century, including Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Jane Harrison, Virginia Woolf, and H.G. Wells. Framed by the story of two romantic encounters, between Walter Benjamin and the actress Asja Lacis in Moscow in 1926 and between Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova in 1945, Love and Russian Literature casts a vivid new light on the ways in which responses to Russia shaped the history of British modernism.
Anti Portraits Poetics of the Face in Modern English Polish and Russian Literature 1835 1965
Author | : Kamila Pawlikowska |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2015-10-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004302266 |
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Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965) examines prose portraits which challenge the belief that the face reflects character. Their authors consider physiognomy as a form of aesthetic dictatorship conducive to stereotyping and racism.
Virginia Woolf
Author | : Viviane Forrester |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2015-05-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780231535120 |
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Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. Virginia Woolf: A Portrait blends recently unearthed documents, key primary sources, and personal interviews with Woolf's relatives and other acquaintances to render in unmatched detail the author's complicated relationship with her husband, Leonard; her father, Leslie Stephen; and her half-sister, Vanessa Bell. Forrester connects these figures to Woolf's mental breakdown while introducing the concept of "Virginia seule," or Virginia alone: an uncommon paragon of female strength and conviction. Forrester's biography inhabits her characters and vivifies their perspective, weaving a colorful, intense drama that forces readers to rethink their understanding of Woolf, her writing, and her world.
Portraits of Women in Selected Novels by Virginia Woolf and E M Forster
Author | : Kerstin Elert |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106005091274 |
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Comedy and the Woman Writer
Author | : Judy Little |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2015-08-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780803288140 |
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Recent critics have affirmed the difficulty—perhaps the impossibility—of defining modern comedy; at the same time, some feminist scholars are seeking to understand the special comedy often present in literature written by women. Comedy and the Woman Writer responds to both these concerns of recent criticism: feminist literary theory and theories of comedy. Judy Little develops a critical apparatus for identifying feminist comedy in recent fiction, especially the radical political and psychological implications of this comedy, and then applies and tests her theory by examining the novels of Virginia Woolf and Muriel Spark. Despite recent scholarly attention to Woolf, the profound comedy of her work has been largely overlooked, and the comic fiction of Spark has seldom had the responsible and attentive criticism that it deserves. The introductory chapter draws upon anthropology and sociology, as well as literary criticism and the fiction of feminist writers such as Woolf, Doris Lessing, and Monique Wittig, to define a modern feminist comedy. Four central chapters then explore the implications of this comedy in the novels of Woolf and Spark. Little distinguishes between, on the one hand, several varieties of traditional comedy and satire and, on the other, the festive or “liminal” comedy to which feminist comedy belongs. Both Woolf and Spark mock centuries-old mythic patterns and behaviors deriving from basic social norms, as well as the values emerging from these norms. It is one thing, the author points out, to find “manners” amusing, to scourge vices, or to mock the follies of lovers; it is a much more drastic act of the imagination to mock the very norms against which comedy has traditionally judged vices, follies, and eccentricities. While the comedy of Woolf and Spark has some precedent in festive or liminal celebrations, during which even basic values and behavior are abandoned, feminist comedy displays its radical nature by implying that there is no resolution to the inverted overturned world, the world in revolutionary transition. The final chapter considers briefly, in the light of the critical model of feminist comedy, the work of several other twentieth-century writers, including Jean Rhys, Penelope Moritmer, and Margaret Drabble. The presence of radical comedy in the fiction of these and other writers suggests the need for continuing attention to the theory of feminist comedy proposed in this study.