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Autore |
Briggs Julia |
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Titolo |
Reading Virginia Woolf / / Julia Briggs |
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Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2006 |
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0-7486-5185-3 |
1-322-98112-4 |
1-280-53847-3 |
9786610538478 |
0-7486-2695-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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