Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Border Crossings)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780815327615
Subjects: Special Subjects In Literature; Literary Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Woolf, Virginia,; Literature and technology; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; England; General; Music / General; 20th century; History & Criticism - General; Music; 1882-1941; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; 20th Century English Novel And Short Story; Modernism (Literature); Copying processes; Criticism and interpretation; Great Britain; History
First sentence: As icons, they gaze back at us from the book exhibits at the Modern Language Association Convention; their quotations, like mantras, waft over our heads in lecture halls; their epigraphs authorize our texts (Figure 1.1).