Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway
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2015
Red Globe Press (Verlag)
978-0-230-50642-8 (ISBN)
Red Globe Press (Verlag)
978-0-230-50642-8 (ISBN)
This Reader's Guide introduces the criticism surrounding Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway from its initial reception to the present day. Incorporating various schools of criticism, such as feminism, post-structuralism and psychoanalysis, Michael H. Whitworth creates an invaluable guide to the literature on Woolf's Mrs Dalloway.
Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925) has long been recognised as one of her outstanding achievements and one of the canonical works of modernist fiction. Each generation of readers has found something new within its pages, which is reflected in its varying critical reception over the last ninety years. As the novel concerns itself with women's place in society, war and madness, it was naturally interpreted differently in the ages of second wave feminism, the Vietnam War and the anti-psychiatry movement.
This has, of course, created a rather daunting number of different readings. Michael H. Whitworth contextualizes the most important critical work and draws attention to the distinctive discourses of critical schools, noting their endurance and interplay. Whitworth also examines how adaptations, such as Michael Cunningham's The Hours, can act as critical works in themselves, creating an invaluable guide to Mrs Dalloway.
Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925) has long been recognised as one of her outstanding achievements and one of the canonical works of modernist fiction. Each generation of readers has found something new within its pages, which is reflected in its varying critical reception over the last ninety years. As the novel concerns itself with women's place in society, war and madness, it was naturally interpreted differently in the ages of second wave feminism, the Vietnam War and the anti-psychiatry movement.
This has, of course, created a rather daunting number of different readings. Michael H. Whitworth contextualizes the most important critical work and draws attention to the distinctive discourses of critical schools, noting their endurance and interplay. Whitworth also examines how adaptations, such as Michael Cunningham's The Hours, can act as critical works in themselves, creating an invaluable guide to Mrs Dalloway.
Michael Whitworth is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at Merton College, Oxford. He has published widely on Virginia Woolf and Modernism.
Introduction
1. Early Responses
2. Recovering Woolf: Criticism in the Era of Second-Wave Feminism
3. Woolf and Philosophy
4. Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
5. Woolf and Psychoanalysis
6. Sexuality and the Body
7. Historicist Approaches
8. Mrs Dalloway and The Hours
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
Reihe/Serie | Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism | Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 270 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-230-50642-9 / 0230506429 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-230-50642-8 / 9780230506428 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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