Reading Virginia Woolf / / Julia Briggs

• Autore: Briggs Julia
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 823.912
• Soggetto topico: English literature
• Classificazione: 18.05
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Reading Virginia Woolf
• ISBN: 0-7486-5185-3; 1-322-98112-4; 1-280-53847-3; 9786610538478; 0-7486-2695-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814113503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II