Virginia Woolf and the Problem of the Subject : : Feminine Writing in the Major Novels / / Makiko Minow-Pinkney.

This classic study shows that Woolf's most experimental writing is far from being a flight from social commitment into arcane modernism. Indeed, it is best seen as a feminist subversion of the deepest formal principles of a patriarchal social order: the very definitions of narrative, writing an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface --
Abbreviations --
Acknowledgements --
CHAPTER 1 Feminism and Modernism in Woolf --
CHAPTER 2 Jacob’s Room --
CHAPTER 3 Mrs. Dalloway --
CHAPTER 4 To the Lighthouse --
CHAPTER 5 Orlando --
CHAPTER 6 The Waves --
CONCLUSION A New Subjectivity --
Notes --
Index
Summary:This classic study shows that Woolf's most experimental writing is far from being a flight from social commitment into arcane modernism. Indeed, it is best seen as a feminist subversion of the deepest formal principles of a patriarchal social order: the very definitions of narrative, writing and the subject. In a series of subtle readings of five major novels - Jacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and The Waves - closely informed by psychoanalytic theory, Makiko Minow-Pinkney presents Woolf as a committed feminist whose politics emerged as an aspect of her experimentation with language and form.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781474471046
9783110780468
DOI:10.1515/9781474471046
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Makiko Minow-Pinkney.