Virginia Woolfs Microgenesis - Mental States and Conceptual Worlds

Virginia Woolf's Microgenesis analyses Virginia Woolf's novels through her own methodological approach to mind, to meaning, and to making whole.

List of contents

Introduction: There's Theory and Stuff
1. A Question of Scales in The Voyage Out
2. Memorial Underpinnings in To the Lighthouse
3. On Making Wholes in The Years
4. Dissolution and Character: The Years Continued
5. Unifying - Dispersing in Between the Acts
Conclusion: Who Said the Play's Over?

About the author

James Kearns was called as a barrister at Middle Temple, London, in 1997, specialising in both Criminal and Family Law at the Inns of Court School of Law. He is a registered university teacher at the University of Plymouth and lecturer in Contextual Studies and the Dissertation Module at Cornwall College University Centre. He earned his M.A. in English Studies: Landscape and Literature at the University of Exeter, and received his Ph.D. in English from the School of Society and Culture, University of Plymouth. He has published three fishy novels: Guppy, Herring, and Gurnard.

Product details

• Authors: James Kearns, Kearns James
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032616919
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3261691-9
• No. of pages: 190
• Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Virginia Woolf, Twentieth Century Literature