Politics and Aesthetics in the Diary of Virginia Woolf

Informationen zum Autor Joanne Campbell Tidwell currently teaches at Peace College in Raleigh, NC. She earned her PhD from Auburn University in Auburn, AL. Klappentext Examines the conflict of aesthetics and politics in "The Diary of Virginia Woolf". As a modernist writer concerned with contemporary aesthetic theories! Woolf experimented with limiting the representative nature of writing. At the same time! as a feminist! Woolf wanted to incorporate her political interests in her fiction. Zusammenfassung This study of Virginia Woolf’s diary examines how Woolf resolved the conflict of expressing political viewpoints with her aesthetic goals, focusing on how that struggle played out in her diary. Inhaltsverzeichnis Permissions, Acknowledgments, Introduction: “Almost a face of its own”: The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Chapter One: “But my diary has ever been scornful of stated rules!” - The Diary as Self in Virginia Woolf ’s Diary, Chapter Two: “The store house of his most private self”: The Diary of Virginia Woolf in Context, Chapter Three: “What sort of diary should I like mine to be?” The Diaries of Virgina Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and Vera Brittain, Chapter Four: “Little waves that life makes”: Virginia Woolf’s Diary and Feminist Modernist Aesthetics, Conclusion: “I’m aware of something permanent & real in my existence”: Possibilities for Virginia Woolf’s Diary, Notes

Product details

• Authors: Joanne Tidwell, Joanne (Case Western Reserve University Tidwell, Tidwell Joanne
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.12.2007
• EAN: 9780415958172
• ISBN: 978-0-415-95817-2
• No. of pages: 130
• Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism