The Unknown Virginia Woolf
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Since its first publication in 1978, Roger Poole's The Unknown Virginia Woolf has achieved recognition as one of the classic studies of Woolf's life and work. Poole revised the conventional view of Woolf as 'mad' by treating her breakdown as socially intelligible. The theme of madness was reconceived in order to provide an intellectual biography that traced Woolf's fear and resentment to her childhood and adolescence. Poole uses the phenomenological concept of embodiment to address the concealed intentionality that lies behind apparently deviant behaviour. He shows how Woolf's challenge to accepted conventions of communication, in both her life and work, is an appeal for meaning. Long considered radical and iconoclastic, this book now occupies a central place in Woolf, gender, and modernist studies. This new edition includes a specially written preface evaluating recent developments in Woolf studies, literary theory and contemporary feminist criticism.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0391036661
ISBN13:9780391036666
Release Date:January 1990
Publisher:Humanities Press Intl
Length:326 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
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Virginia Woolf was not "mad"
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
In this exelent book, Roger Poole studies Virginia Woolf's personality, discarding any kind of mental ilness. The book is a profound research, based on Virginia Woolf's literature, as well as other testimonies of the ones close to her. Poole defends Woolf's mental health, very interesting book for those who want to understand what was really happening inside Woolf's head. The book is well written and includes a very interesting study on Virginia Woolf's suicide note.
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