Imagining Virginia Woolf : : An Experiment in Critical Biography / / Maria DiBattista.
Where other works of literary criticism are absorbed with the question--How to read a book?--Imagining Virginia Woolf asks a slightly different but more intriguing one: how does one read an author? Maria DiBattista answers this by undertaking an experiment in critical biography. The subject of this...
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DiBattista, Maria, author. Imagining Virginia Woolf : An Experiment in Critical Biography / Maria DiBattista. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2008] ©2009 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- The Demon of Reading -- The Figment of the Author -- 2. Personalities -- Woolf's Personalities -- 3. The Sibyl of the Drawing Room -- 4. The Author -- 5. The Critic -- 6. The World Writer -- 7. The Adventurer -- Epilogue -- 8. Anon Once More -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Where other works of literary criticism are absorbed with the question--How to read a book?--Imagining Virginia Woolf asks a slightly different but more intriguing one: how does one read an author? Maria DiBattista answers this by undertaking an experiment in critical biography. The subject of this work is not Virginia Woolf, the person who wrote the novels, criticism, letters, and famous diary, but a different being altogether, someone or something Maria DiBattista identifies as "the figment of the author." This is the Virginia Woolf who lives intermittently in the pages of her writings and in the imagination of her readers. Drawing on Woolf's own extensive remarks on the pleasures and perils of reading, DiBattista argues that reading Woolf, in fact reading any author, involves an encounter with this imaginative figment, whose distinct, stylistic traits combine to produce that beguiling phantom--the literary personality. DiBattista reveals a writer who possessed not a single personality, but a cluster of distinct, yet complementary identities: the Sibyl of Bloomsbury, the Author, the Critic, the World Writer, and the Adventurer, the last of which, DiBattista claims, unites them all. Imagining Virginia Woolf provides an original way of reading, one that captures with variety and subtlety the personality that exists only in Woolf's works and in the minds of her readers. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) Authors and readers. Authors, English Psychology. Authors, English 20th century Biography. Authors, English 20th century Psychology. Authorship Psychological aspects. BIOGRAPHY and amp AUTOBIOGRAPHY Literary. BIOGRAPHY and amp AUTOBIOGRAPHY Women. Criticism European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Personality in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015 9783110662580 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Univ. Press eBook Package 2000-2013 9783110413434 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459531 print 9780691138121 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400830046 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400830046.jpg |
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