LEADER 04008nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910452228603321 005 20210602205659.0 010 $a1-281-72288-X 010 $a9786611722883 010 $a0-300-13376-6 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300133769 035 $a(CKB)1000000000472070 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022171493 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000267711 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11213458 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000267711 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10212481 035 $a(PQKB)10540133 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000165585 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3419859 035 $a(DE-B1597)485366 035 $a(OCoLC)1024008801 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300133769 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3419859 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10167908 035 $a(OCoLC)923587877 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000472070 100 $a20010524d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVirginia Woolf$b[electronic resource] $ebecoming a writer /$fKatherine Dalsimer 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (xvii, 206 p.)) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-300-09208-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 197-201) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. To the Lighthouse --$t2. The ''Hyde Park Gate News'' --$t3. Diary, Age Fifteen: "A Volume of Fairly Acute Life" --$t4. Journals, Ages Seventeen and Twenty-One: ''The Right Use of Reason'' --$t5. Early Reviews and Essays: Age Twenty-Two to Twenty-Three --$t6. ''I Write of Things As I See Them'': Age Twenty-Four to Twenty-Five --$t7. The Voyage Out --$t8. ''On Being Ill'' --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aBy the time she was twenty-four, Virginia Woolf had suffered a series of devastating losses that later she would describe as "sledge-hammer blows," beginning with the death of her mother when she was thirteen years old and followed by those of her half-sister, father, and brother. Yet vulnerable as she was ("skinless" was her word) she began, through these years, to practice her art-and to discover how it could serve her. Ultimately, she came to feel that it was her "shock-receiving capacity" that had made her a writer. Astonishingly gifted from the start, Woolf learned to be attentive to the movements of her own mind. Through self-reflection she found a language for the ebb and flow of thought, fantasy, feeling, and memory, for the shifts of light and dark. And in her writing she preserved, recreated, and altered the dead, altering in the process her internal relationship with their "invisible presences." "I will go backwards & forwards" she remarked in her diary, a comment on both her imaginative and writerly practice. Following Woolf's lead, psychologist Katherine Dalsimer moves backward and forward between the work of Woolf's maturity and her early journals, letters, and unpublished juvenilia to illuminate the process by which Woolf became a writer. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory as well as on Woolf's life and work, and trusting Woolf's own self-observations, Dalsimer offers a compelling account of a young artist's voyage out-a voyage that Virginia Woolf began by looking inward and completed by looking back. 606 $aNovelists, English$y20th century$vBiography 606 $aWomen and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aYoung women$zEngland$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNovelists, English 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aYoung women 676 $a823/.912 676 $aB 700 $aDalsimer$b Katherine$f1944-$01030433 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452228603321 996 $aVirginia Woolf$92447322 997 $aUNINA