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Virginia Woolf and the politics of language / by Judith Allen

Author
Allen, Judith
Published
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
Physical Description
x, 133 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents
1. Those Soul Mates: Virginia Woolf and Michel de Montaigne -- 2. Changing Titles/Transforming Texts? -- 3. The Rhetoric of Performance in A Room of One's Own -- 4. Interrogating 'Wildness' -- 5. Thinking and Talking/War and Peace -- 6. Virginia Woolf, 'Patriotism', and 'our prostituted fact-purveyors'.
Summary
In this study close readings of Woolf's essays including 'A Room of One's Own', 'Three Guineas' and 'Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid', as well as several novels, explore Woolf's interrogation of language and the relevance of Virginia Woolf's texts to our current political situation.
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ISBN
9780748636754 (hbk.)
0748636757 (hbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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