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...Steve Nathaniel Abstract This article describes Virginia Woolf's preoccupation with acoustics and its relationship both to her writing process and to the development of sensibility that she narrativizes in The Waves . It situates Woolf's theoretical and fictional models of listening with respect...

...KARIN WESTMAN MELBA CUDDY-KEANE, Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere . New York: Cambridge UP, 2003. pp. 237, $60.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 Woolf in the World AIELBA CUVDY-KEANE, Virginia Woos the Infellecfunl, nnd fhe Public...

... . Benjamin , Walter . Illuminationen . Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1972 . Benjamin , Walter . Illuminations . Trans. Harry Zohn. Ed. Hannah Arendt. New York: Schocken Books, 1968 . Bishop , Edward L. “The Shaping of Jacob’s Room. Woolf’s Manuscript Revisions.” Twentieth Century Literature...

...Stephen M. Barber This essay argues that Woolf's late work is both the condition and the effect of her turn in the early 1930s to an aesthetics of existence. Far from signifying a withdrawal from the world, Woolf's “philosophy of the free soul” intensified her relationship with politics. The two...

...Jesse Matz DALGARNO EMILY , Virginia Woolf and the Migrations of Language ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2012 ), pp. 215 , cloth, $99.00 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press Woolf as Translator EMILY DALGARNO, Virginia Woolf...

...Maud Ellmann For Britons during World War II, war was in the air, in the form of bombing raids, but also on the air, in the form of news and propaganda on the radio. “Everyday War” shows how Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Townsend Warner respond to war in the air by turning to the English countryside...

...MEG ALBRINCK KAREN L. LEVENBACK, Virginia Woolf and the Great War (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999), pp. 208, $34.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 1999 1999 Woolf's War Stories KAREN L. LEVENBACK, Virginia Woolfund the Great War (Syracuse: Syracuse...

... exceptions, such as the Circumlocution Office in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit or Anthony Trollope's Three Clerks ). Although squarely set within the “governing-class spirit” of Westminster and populated with a bevy of civil servants, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway tends to be read as maintaining a strict...

... and Virginia Woolf's construction, this article proposes empty-house-time as a distinctive narrative chronotope, one that nineteenth- and twentieth-century British writers use to investigate the processes of realist fiction, especially its affective dimensions. Taking the character-less built environment...

.... As such, it was opposed to history, which only told events, as they happened, in their empirical succession. When Virginia Woolf contrasts the tyranny of the plot with the truth of the shower of atoms falling upon the minds at every moment of any ordinary day, she exactly overturns the opposition. Now the problem is: how...

... Raj Anand, Virginia Woolf, and, later, Zadie Smith respond to social and political disintegration by insisting upon fiction's capacity to gather together a disparate audience; and they suggest how gatherings afford an unbounded, eventual, and non-sovereign arrangement of collective life within...

...,” or the virtual conflation of poetic and prosaic syntax, in the Romantic era; the conspicuous intensification of uninflected prose that is generally taken to be the stylistic innovation of the modernist era exemplified by Virginia Woolf; and the sedimentation of syntax into generic idioms in subsequent decades...

... with Russian formalism, Gérard Genette, and G. W. F. Hegel, the essay challenges the received understanding of novelistic chronology and argues for a reconsideration of the place of duration within a theory of narrative temporality. The argument builds on examples drawn from Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens...

... Woolf's fictional account of Septimus Smith, who is convinced his friend Evans has come back from the dead, and Oliver Lodge's best-selling memoir, Raymond, or Life and Death , which recounts in detail how Lodge believed his dead son sent messages to the family to assure them of his continued material...

... House (1927) turns away from the possibilities explored by Lawrence, Hemingway, Woolf, Proust, Joyce, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald, seeking instead moments of aesthetic translucence, the overlay of one image, or one sound, on top of another. Such moments of overlay (or overtone) encapsulate the problem...

.... Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: U of Texas P, 1981 . Beer , Gillian . Arguing with the Past: Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney . London: Routledge, 1989 . Caughie , Pamela L. Virginia Woolf & Postmodernism: Literature in Quest & Question of Itself...

... War. Throughout this thoughtful study, he carefully probes the work of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf, demonstrating through primarily formalist analysis how their work becomes quin- tessentially modernist at the precise moments that their narrative and poetic lines reject...

... of violence that uncovers new connections among some of modernism's most frequently examined works. Cole invites us to read James Joyce's pandying scene alongside Yeats's “Leda and the Swan” and to reconsider the embedded violence of scenes as famous as the skywriting in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway...

...ANN ARDIS MAGGIE HUMM, Modernist Women and Visual Cultures: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Photography and Cinema (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003), pp. 244 + xii, cloth, $62.00, paper, $24.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 Women and the Technologies...

... the complexity of “relationships between everyday, private activities and public, international ones” (15). Instead of beating up on modernist elitism or ignoring the aesthetic idiosyncrasy of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf in the name of making their prose appear symptomatic, Walkowitz updates...