Reading Virginia Woolf / [electronic resource]
Briggs, Julia,author.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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.
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.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.