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Virginia Woolf: A Critical Memoir by Winifred Holtby (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Virginia Woolf: A Critical Memoir
- Artist
- ExcelDna.Integration.ExcelEmpty
- ISBN
- 9780826494436
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
- Publication Name
- Virginia Woolf : a Critical Memoir
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
- Item Length
- 7.8 in
- Subject
- Women Authors, Entertainment & Performing Arts, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Uk-Trade Paper
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Weight
- 8.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-10
0826494439
ISBN-13
9780826494436
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57061062
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Publication Name
Virginia Woolf : a Critical Memoir
Language
English
Subject
Women Authors, Entertainment & Performing Arts, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Uk-Trade Paper
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
8.5 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2007-275106
Reviews
'Holtby' style is sharp, masterful and concise...She demonstrates a supreme grasp of the difference between modernist and traditionalist writing in the 1920s and 1930s....In fact, Holtby's short, artful critique of Woolf and her work, written with the benefit of having met the author, seems to get closer to revealing the "true Virginia" than many later attempts....Holtby's book has on the whole, stood the test of time...her excellent readings of Woolf's texts hold their ground among more recent studies and there is no better justification for a new edition of her book than [her] insightful conclusion on Woolf both as a writer and woman.' ~ Vanessa Curtis, The Independent on Sunday, 'Holtby provides an interesting and contemporaneous view of Woolf...But the primary reason to celebrate the reappearance of A Critical Memoir is that it allows those unfamiliar with it to introduce themselves to an author who ought to be more readily in print.' ~ Duncan Hamilton, Yorkshire Post
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
823.912
Table Of Content
Foreword The Advantages of being Virginia Stephen The Uncommon Reader "The Voyage Out" Virginia Woolf is not Jane Austen "Out of the Window" Cinematograph The adventure justified Two in a taxi "The Waves" - and after? Bibliography
Synopsis
Holtby gives us Woolf the critic, the essayist and the experimental novelist in a critical memoir which is of particular interest as the work of one intelligent, though very different, novelist commenting on another. Holtby's careful reading of Woolf's work is set in the context of the debate between modernist and traditional writing in the 1920s and 1930s. Although Holtby greatly admires Woolf's art, she considers its limitations as an elite form that ignores the material conditions of everyday life and the consequent social responsibility expected of the novel. Choosing to write about Woolf as 'the author whose art seemed most of all removed from anything I could ever attempt, and whose experience was most alien to my own,' Holtby has written a candid appreciation of the complex, groundbreaking work of a contemporary writer at the height of her career. Winifred Holtby was a novelist, journalist and social reformer, who campaigned for the causes of peace and sexual and racial equality. Her most famous work is the novel South Riding, published posthumously in 1936. She died in 1935. >, Holtby gives us Woolf the critic, the essayist and the experimental novelist in a critical memoir which is of particular interest as the work of one intelligent, though very different, novelist commenting on another. Holtby's careful reading of Woolf's work is set in the context of the debate between modernist and traditional writing in the 1920s and 1930s. Although Holtby greatly admires Woolf's art, she considers its limitations as an elite form that ignores the material conditions of everyday life and the consequent social responsibility expected of the novel.¿¿ Choosing to write about Woolf as 'the author whose art seemed most of all removed from anything I could ever attempt, and whose experience was most alien to my own,' Holtby has written a candid appreciation of the complex, groundbreaking work of a contemporary writer at the height of her career. Winifred Holtby was a novelist, journalist and social reformer, who campaigned for the causes of peace and sexual and racial equality. Her most famous work is the novel South Riding, published posthumously in 1936. She died in 1935., Holtby gives us Woolf the critic, the essayist and the experimental novelist in a critical memoir which is of particular interest as the work of one intelligent, though very different, novelist commenting on another. Holtby's careful reading of Woolf's work is set in the context of the debate between modernist and traditional writing in the 1920s and 1930s. Although Holtby greatly admires Woolf's art, she considers its limitations as an elite form that ignores the material conditions of everyday life and the consequent social responsibility expected of the novel. Choosing to write about Woolf as 'the author whose art seemed most of all removed from anything I could ever attempt, and whose experience was most alien to my own, ' Holtby has written a candid appreciation of the complex, groundbreaking work of a contemporary writer at the height of her career. Winifred Holtby was a novelist, journalist and social reformer, who campaigned for the causes of peace and sexual and racial equality. Her most famous work is the novel South Riding, published posthumously in 1936. She died in 1935., A critical memoir of Virginia Woolf - the critic, the essayist, the experimenter and the 'unfinished woman'. The author relates her own reading and insights to the living context of English letter's in the 1930's.
LC Classification Number
PR6045.072
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