Sentencing Orlando : : Virginia Woolf and the Morphology of the Modernist Sentence /

Sentencing Orlando : : Virginia Woolf and the Morphology of the Modernist Sentence / / Elsa Högberg, Amy Bromley.

Highlights the interconnected styles and contexts of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando by examining individual sentencesIf the line is the privileged semantic unit in verse, we could ask whether the sentence plays the same role in prose. This possibility holds particular relevance for Virginia Woolf’s Orland...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Högberg, Elsa,
Bromley, Amy,
MitwirkendeR:
Allen, Judith,
Avery, Todd,
Bahun, Sanja,
Bellamy, Suzanne,
Bowlby, Rachel,
Bromley, Amy,
Frøsig, Anna,
Gay, Jane de,
Goldman, Jane,
Hagen, Benjamin D.,
Högberg, Elsa,
Kolocotroni, Vassiliki,
Koppen, Randi,
Putzel, Steven,
Randall, Bryony,
Spiropoulou, Angeliki,
Staveley, Alice,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2018
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Sentencing Orlando
  • 1. ‘The Queen had come’: Orgasm and Arrival
  • 2. ‘Something intricate and many-chambered’: Sexuality and the Embodied Sentence
  • 3. Woolf, De Quincey and the Legacy of ‘Impassioned Prose’
  • 4. Rhythms of Revision and Revisiting: Unpicking the Past in Orlando
  • 5. ‘Let us go, then, exploring’: Intertextual Conversations on the Meaning of Life
  • 6. ‘. . . and nothing whatever happened’: Orlando’s Continuous Eruptive Form
  • 7. Orlando, Greece and the Impossible Landscape
  • 8. Orlando Famoso: Obscurity, Fame and History in Orlando
  • 9. Bibliographic Parturition in Orlando: Books, Babies, Freedom and Fame
  • 10. The Day of Orlando
  • 11. Satzdenken, Indeterminacy and the Polyvalent Audience
  • 12. In Amorous Dedication: The Phrase, the Figure and the Lover’s Discourse
  • 13. A Spirit in Flux: Aestheticism, Evolution and Religion
  • 14. Sir Thomas Browne and the Reading of Remains in Orlando
  • 15. The Negress and the Bishop: On Marriage, Colonialism and the Problem of Knowledge
  • 16. Orlando and the Politics of (In)Conclusiveness
  • Aftersentence
  • Index

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