| Description |
1 online resource (x, 133 pages) |
| Contents |
From Michel de Montaigne to the new media : reading Virginia Woolf in the twenty-first century -- 'Theorising' reading, 'theorising' language. Those soul mates : Virginia Woolf and Michel de Montaigne ; Changing titles/transforming texts? -- The politics of writing. The rhetoric of performance in A room of one's own ; Interrogating 'wildness' -- Dialogue and dissent. Thinking and talking/war and peace ; Virginia Woolf, 'patriotism', and 'our prostituted fact-purveyors' -- 'Thinking against the current' |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-125) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Language
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 fast |
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Woolf, Virginia -- Politik und Gesellschaft. idsbb |
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Woolf, Virginia -- Sprache und Stil. idsbb |
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Woolf, Virginia. idszbz |
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Politics in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Language and languages
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Politics in literature
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Sprache
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Politik Motiv
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Sprache.
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Politik.
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Motiv.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780748636761 |
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0748636765 |
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0748651969 |
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9780748651962 |
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1282749676 |
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9781282749672 |
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9786612749674 |
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6612749679 |
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