Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Language

ISBN-13: 9780748664856 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 144 str.

Judith Allen

Opis

Through close readings of Woolf's essays, including 'Montaigne', A Room of One's Own, 'Craftsmanship', Three Guineas and 'Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid', Allen shows how Woolf's politics are expressed and enacted in her writing. She then works from a wide range of sources to relate Woolf's views and methods to our current political situation. These sources range from Michel de Montaigne to the Dixie Chicks, from the Northcliffe Press newspaper empire of World War I to today's mainstream newspapers, Rupert Murdoch's empire, satirical news shows like The Colbert Report and The Daily Show and social media and the blogosphere."

Spis treści

Introduction: From Montaigne to New Media: Reading Virginia Woolf Today; Part I: 'Theorising' Reading, 'Theorising' Language; 1. Those Soul Mates: Michel de Montaigne and Virginia Woolf; 2. Changing Titles/Transforming Texts?; Part II: The Politics of Writing; 3. The Rhetoric of Performance in A Room of One's Own; 4. Interrogating 'Wildness'; Part III: Dialogue and Dissent; 5. Thinking and Talking/War and Peace; 6. 'Patriotism' and 'those prostituted fact-purveyors'; Conclusion. 'Thinking Against the Current'; Notes; Bibliography; Index.