Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf - An Introduction

Informationen zum Autor Jane Goldman is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Dundee. Klappentext For students of modern literature, the works of Virginia Woolf are essential reading. In her novels, short stories, essays, polemical pamphlets and in her private letters she explored, questioned and refashioned everything about modern life: cinema, sexuality, shopping, education, feminism, politics and war. Her elegant and startlingly original sentences became a model of modernist prose. This is a clear and informative introduction to Woolf's life, works, and cultural and critical contexts, explaining the importance of the Bloomsbury group in the development of her work. It covers the major works in detail, including To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, The Waves and the key short stories. As well as providing students with the essential information needed to study Woolf, Jane Goldman suggests further reading to allow students to find their way through the most important critical works. All students of Woolf will find this a useful and illuminating overview of the field. Zusammenfassung This is a clear and informative introduction to Woolf's life! works! and cultural and critical contexts! covering the major works in detail! including To the Lighthouse! Mrs Dalloway! The Waves and the key short stories. All students of Woolf will find this a useful and illuminating overview of the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Life; 2. Contexts; 3. Works; 4. Criticism; 5. Guide to further reading.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Goldman, Jane (University of Dundee) Goldman, Goldman Jane
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.09.2006
• EAN: 9780521838832
• ISBN: 978-0-521-83883-2
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Lit; Cambridge Introductions to Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form