Feminism, Literary Theory, General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism, Literary Movements, English Literature
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Overview
This study offers a fresh evaluation of Woolf's works, including the major novels, short stories, biographies, critical essays, and reviews. It reveals that even those areas of her work that have been consistently ignored by critics fit an overall pattern. Woolf's modernism is unmistakable. She belongs in the company of Joyce, Eliot, and Faulkner, yet while espousing modernist principles, she worked in a prose style that remains well within the traditional forms. Like all modernists, she was interested in creating a more authentic fiction, a more realistic portrayal of character. Yet she was doubtful of fiction's ability to reflect a true reality, and of the capacity of language to express it. This wistful doubtfulness informs her stories, essays, and novels with an outlook that is strikingly modern. An extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources is included.Editorials
Booknews
An interesting evaluation of Woolf's work focusing on manifestations of modernism in the major novels, short stories, biographies, critical essays, and reviews. Newman (Temple U.) argues that while Woolf's modernism brings her into company with Joyce, Eliot, and Faulkner, her traditional style and attention to realism fostered an aesthetic uncertainty which would become a theme in her work. The volume includes specific readings of Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, The Waves, and To the Lighthouse. Lacks an index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
February 27, 1997
Publisher
New York : Garland Pub., 1996.
Pages
168
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780824051723