“‘From different books we must ask different qualities’: The Essay as Public or Private Space in the Yale Review and Common Reader versions of Virginia Woolf’s ‘How Should One Read a Book?’” by Xavier LE BRUN

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Culture and Literary Criticism in the 1930s and '40s.The Case of F.R. and Q.D. Leavis by Jean-Christophe MURAT

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Making the Past Audible: The Childlike Element and Renewal of Existence in Benjamin and Woolf by Anne-Marie Smith-Di Biasio

“…This paper reads Virginia Woolf’s writing through Walter Benjamin’s thinking of “the childlike element” as a paradigm of renewal, whereby, through the prism of memory, the recall of a remainder sealed in the old world will reignite the promise of hope crystallized in childhood. …”
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From A Room with a View to the Fascist Spectacle: Bloomsbury in Italy by Elena Gualtieri

“…M. Forster’s and Virginia Woolf’s reception of Italy as a way of tracing significant changes in the social function of visual art that marked the beginnings of mass tourism and, at the same time, the emergence of the new relationship between art and politics on which Fascism was built.…”
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Denying the Dichotomy: Word Images in The Waves by Bernadette McCarthy

“…Roger Fry’s introduction to Britain of the works of Post-impressionist painters was to impact significantly on the artistic development of writers including Virginia Woolf. Out of this convergence of visual and verbal thought, The Waves emerged; a literary work deeply implicated in visual convention. …”
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Art and the ‘Second Darkness’ by Catherine Lanone

“…He describes the Bloomsbury legacy in terms of aesthetic change, such as Virginia Woolf’s rhythmical sensuous prose or Lytton Strachey’s ironic, revolutionary biographies. …”
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Economic and Symbolic Transmissions in Women’s Novels: Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell by Marie-Laure Massei-Chamayou

“…In A Room of One’s Own (1929), Virginia Woolf traces a fascinating genealogy of women writers from Aphra Behn to George Eliot, including Frances Burney and Jane Austen among others, to emphasize the power of influence in relation to their engagement with both fiction and economics. …”
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Can Literature Know Itself and Not Become Philosophy? by Ralph M. Berry

“…With the example of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, the article concludes that there might be no intrinsic knowledge of our (aesthetic) concepts outside examples.…”
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Analyse des Werturteils – Analysen, wer urteilt?. ›Qualität‹ und Qualitätsmaßstäbe in der Musikforschung by Nina Noeske

“…The article pleads for a considered reintroduction of a subjective perspective (including value judgement) into analysis and music historiography, especially where gender issues are concerned – in full awareness that there is no absolute value standard in art, that music cannot be weighed “like sugar and butter,” to quote Virginia Woolf.…”
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Le promeneur londonien au xixe siècle : une excursion dans l’obscur by Max Duperray

“…From Charles Lamb and De Quincey to Arthur Machen and even (a little later) Virginia Woolf, among others, the figure of the invisible bohemian recalls Baudelaire’s flâneur and the fictional character writing fiction. …”
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Chambres en souffrance : révéler la parole des artistes et des femmes victimes de violences à travers l’espace intime by Adélie Le Guen

“…The bedroom, an open stage, is a favourite venue in the reconstruction of traumatic events, experienced by the artists themselves or by women they feel close to. Virginia Woolf discussed this enclosed space, which, like their own bodies, women could not freely avail themselves of; this room – in which they lacked the freedom to love in accordance with their choices, to create as they wished, or just to be alone – represents subordination, abuse, wounds. …”
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“Inside His Idiom:” E. M. Forster’s T. S. Eliot by Jason FINCH

“…The friendship of each with Virginia Woolf brought them into contact with one another and then, in the 1920s, they were linked by The Criterion, which Eliot edited. …”
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Learning During Coronavirus: “The Masque of the Red Death” by Jon Beasley-Murray

“…We might seek to know things the way in which Virginia Woolf’s moth (in another struggle of life and death, read in the reading group) knows things: immanently, absolutely, with all the strength of the very weak.…”
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Janet Flanner’s The Cubical City and the Life She Left Behind by Rai PETERSON

“…Recent critical attention has shed light on lesbian roman à clef works by English and American expatriates published in 1928, including Djuna Barnes’ Ladies Almanack, Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, and Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. This reading of The Cubicle City locates it as foundational to lesbian modernist novels and as an artifact which demonstrates the freedom that transnationality conferred upon Flanner, yet was denied her protagonist.…”
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Arnold Bennett’s Naturalistic and Democratic Interiors in The Old Wives’ Tale (1908) by Laurent Mellet

“…We know the terms in which Virginia Woolf dismissed Edwardian writers for relying exclusively on materialism. …”
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From Androgynous to Hybrid Cybernetic Bodies: Salvation or More Subjugation? by Muzaffer Derya Nazlıpınar Subaşı

“…The assumption is that first there is a sex, which is conveyed through a socially constructed gender, and then bodily desires and sexuality are shaped in accordance with that constructed gender. However, Virginia Woolf, one of the prominent literary figures of the twentieth century, persistently tries to challenge this assumption that all people fall into one of the two distinct gender categories, masculine or feminine, established on biological sex traits. …”
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Excès et sacré dans la littérature victorienne et édouardienne by Annie Escuret

“…Some writers (like Dickens or Virginia Woolf) do insist on the importance of immanent forms of the sacred whereas Hardy and Conrad insist mainly on the absence of any form of sacredness. …”
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Victorian Arts and the Challenge of Modernity: Analogy, the Grid, and Chemical Transformations by Francesca Orestano

“…Eliot, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry, who variously responded to the drawings of Magdalenian artists, or to the art of Homer, while having recourse to modern science, chemistry especially, in order to explain literary phenomena. …”
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Comparative Genre Analysis of Lyrical Novels: Christian and Kid and To the Lighthouse by Parnian Zarepoor, Najmeh Dorri, Gholamhosein Gholamhoseinzade

“…This research aims at identifying the criteria of genre analysis in lyrical novels, specifically a comparative study of Christian and Kid by Houshang Golshiri and To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. This is a descriptive-analytical research based on library resources. …”
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