A Poetics of Postmodernism and Neomodernism [electronic resource] : Rewriting Mrs Dalloway /
Latham, M.author.
This new book examines how a range of authors today perpetuate Virginia Woolf's literary legacy, by creating new forms adapted to their new ages and audiences. Addressing questions about the current penchant for refashioning our canon in order to update, this book will be valuable reading for both students and scholars of Woolf.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This new book examines how a range of authors today perpetuate Virginia Woolf's literary legacy, by creating new forms adapted to their new ages and audiences. Addressing questions about the current penchant for refashioning our canon in order to update, this book will be valuable reading for both students and scholars of Woolf.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction1 'The dressing-rooms, the workshops, the sculleries, the bubbling cauldrons'2 Ventriloquists: Between Debt and Homage3 Parodic Games: Textual Assassinations and Canonical Resurrection4 Virginia Woolf's Neomodernist Heirs: Nostalgic Innovators5 The Artful Ornament of OrdinarinessNotesBibliographyIndex.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
British literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature—History and criticism.
Fiction.
British and Irish Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Literary History.
Fiction.