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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 87–100.
Published: 01 September 2006
.... Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida. Trans. Richard Howard. N ew York: Hill and Wang/Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1981. Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. NewYork: Q uality Paperback Book Club, 1972. Cavell, Stanley. The W orld Viewed. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard UP, 1979. Gillespie, Diane. '"H er...
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English Language Notes (2002) 39 (3): 54–70.
Published: 01 March 2002
... years before, see A ugust 24, 1805, Letters 107. 36Park H onan, Jane Austen: Her Life (London: W eidenfeld an d Nicolson, 1987) 333-34. 37Miscellany Poems 42. 38 T he In tro d u c tio n , Anne Finch: Selected Poems ed. Denys T ho m p so n (M anchester: C arcanet Press, 1987) 26. VIRGINIA WOOLF...
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English Language Notes (2002) 40 (1): 77–85.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Gresham Riley Modernism & Eugenics: Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the Culture of Degeneration . By Donald J. Childs . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2001 . Pp. 266. hc. 0-521-80601-1. Copyright © 2002 Regents of the University of Colorado 2002 September 2002 77 BOOK...
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (2): 195–199.
Published: 01 September 2007
.... For example, W oolf sends "[A kiss] Laura G reen 19 7 from me to the insect," and writes, "I invented a story about tw o little beasts w ith a passion fo r m uffins (cousins o f the insect they are)" (154). Sproles speculates that "insect" was not, as the editors o f Woolf's letters suggest, a pet name fo r...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 231–247.
Published: 01 March 2013
... in twentieth-century criticism? As Howe suggests, the can onization of Eliot as critic, and of his "tradition," presum ably reflects the institutional tastemaking power of the male academicians w hom Eliot overtly addressed in his lectures and essays; Woolf, whose affection for Eliot did not preclude her...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 35–50.
Published: 01 March 2013
... approaches modernism's transnational legacy by turning to Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas (1938) and J. M. Coetzee's Diary o f a Bad Year (2007), m ulti-generic works that combine fiction, political philosophy, and documentary to imagine comparative fram e works for political agency, social embeddedness...
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English Language Notes (2005) 42 (3): 52–67.
Published: 01 March 2005
... characters of Virginia Woolf s 1925 novel, Mrs. Dalloway, is Septimus W arren Smith, a shell-shocked veteran ofWorld War I, who has recendy returned to London with his Italian wife, Lucrezia. Although critics have correctiy suggest ed that Woolf s portrayal of Septimus and his mistreatoient at the hands...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 1–20.
Published: 01 October 2022
... conflicts. Virginia Woolf, for example, repeatedly described the hostess and art patron Ottoline Morrell in terms that conflate Spanish styles with naval references. 12 The connection is rooted in the fact that Spain boasted the most powerful maritime force in the world during the sixteenth...
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English Language Notes (2002) 40 (2): 57–68.
Published: 01 December 2002
...: Bloomsbury, 1996) 42, 117. MRS. DALLOWAY AND PERFORMANCE THEORY Late 20th-century performance theory contests the supposed distinction between life and theatre. Virginia Woolf posed the same challenge thro u g h o u t h er writing, m ost clearly in h er 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway. H er interest in theatre...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 69–91.
Published: 01 October 2022
... supporting Victorian and Edwardian society, and quite unlike the bright green dress that Virginia Woolf’s straitlaced brother George insisted she tear up when she came down in it “one winter’s evening about 1900.” 4 Strachey’s nickname encapsulates Forster’s ability to “go anywhere” in the strictly...
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English Language Notes (2005) 42 (3): 39–52.
Published: 01 March 2005
... of Virginia Woolf s 1925 novel, Mrs. Dalloway, is Septimus W arren Smith, a shell-shocked veteran ofWorld War I, who has recendy returned to London with his Italian wife, Lucrezia. Although critics have correctiy suggest ed that Woolf s portrayal of Septimus and his mistreatoient at the hands of Dr. Holmes...
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English Language Notes (2002) 39 (3): 41–54.
Published: 01 March 2002
... Austen: Her Life (London: W eidenfeld an d Nicolson, 1987) 333-34. 37Miscellany Poems 42. 38 T he In tro d u c tio n , Anne Finch: Selected Poems ed. Denys T ho m p so n (M anchester: C arcanet Press, 1987) 26. VIRGINIA WOOLF: LEXICOGRAPHER In 1938 Virginia W oolf started to com pile h er own Supple...
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (2): 1–5.
Published: 01 September 2007
... to lesbian scholarship in its infancy, and reading Woolf's coded spatial references to "serpentine caves" alongside these ground-breaking essays was an exhilarating experience. Now, looking back on Woolf's depiction of bisexuality and lesbianism in A Room (which is still under dispute today), and thinking...
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English Language Notes (2002) 40 (2): 55–57.
Published: 01 December 2002
... (L ondon: Bloomsbury, 1996) 42, 117. MRS. DALLOWAY AND PERFORMANCE THEORY Late 20th-century performance theory contests the supposed distinction between life and theatre. Virginia Woolf posed the same challenge thro u g h o u t h er writing, m ost clearly in h er 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway. H er...
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English Language Notes (2004) 41 (4): 23–26.
Published: 01 June 2004
... which an o th er Bloomsburyian, Virginia Woolf, characterized as m ore cautious and m ore deliberate than any o th er he could have m ade.4 Recalling those moments in Rome Gibbon seems to want us to believe that his choice was spontaneous, alm ost reckless, almost unwilled, even passionate. Patricia...
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English Language Notes (2001) 39 (2): 69–72.
Published: 01 December 2001
... narrates Robertson Davies s Fifth Business devotes his career to hagio graphy, the study of saints lives. H agiography is highly stylized, often following transparent conventions so consistently that the genre is largely inaccessible to a m odern audience. Rosemary Woolf observes, there is perhaps...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 249–251.
Published: 01 March 2013
... on Virginia Woolf). The second is race, cultural studies, and visuality. Most recently, she has published Signs o f the Times: The Visual Politics o f Jim Crow (2010), which charts the cultural history of segregation signs through their mediation by pho tography. Her current project examines maternal elegies...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 49–68.
Published: 01 October 2022
..., “Novel Afternoon Gowns” ; and Harper’s Bazaar , “Inexpensive French Costumes.” 62 In using the word trivial in quotation marks, I am referring to Virginia Woolf’s often-cited commentary on the cultural importance of fashion and, by extension, the lives and experiences of women: “Speaking...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2013
... foreground the transnational impulses already present in modernism and provide a powerful tool for thinking about literature's relationship to globalization. Comparing the multi-generic texts Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas (1938) and J. M. Coetzee's Diary o f a Bad Year (2007), Walkowitz dem on strates how...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 133–145.
Published: 01 April 2021
... is in the era’s detective fiction, although there are also notable interwar examples from such authors as Virginia Woolf, John Dos Passos, Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Evelyn Waugh, and Katherine Mansfield. 5 Maxwell, “Global Poetics and State-Sponsored Transnationalism,” 360 . 6 Feinsod...
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