The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Students ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Magical Realism ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Many ◽  
Hogarth Press

With thirty-nine original chapters from internationally prominent scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf is designed for post-secondary students, scholars, and common readers. Feminist to the core, each chapter offers an overview that is at once fresh and thoroughly grounded in prior scholarship. Six parts focus on Woolf’s life, her texts, her experiments, her as a professional, her contexts, and her afterlife. Opening chapters on Woolf’s life address the powerful influences of family, friends, and home. Part II on her works moves chronologically, emphasizing Woolf’s practice of writing essays and reviews alongside her fiction. Chapters on Woolf’s experimentalism pay special attention to the literariness of Woolf’s writing, with opportunity to trace its distinctive watermark while ‘Professions of Writing’, invites readers to consider how Woolf worked in cultural fields including and extending beyond the Hogarth Press and the Times Literary Supplement. Part V on ‘Contexts’ moves beyond writing to depict her engagement with the natural world as well as the political, artistic, and popular culture of her time. The final part, ‘Afterlives’, demonstrates the many ways Woolf’s reputation continues to grow. Of particular note, chapters explore three distinct Woolfian traditions in fiction: the novel of manners, magical realism, and the feminist novel.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. xx-3
Author(s):  
Anne E. Fernald
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Women Artists ◽  
Magical Realism ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Core ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Many ◽  
Hogarth Press

With thirty-nine original chapters from internationally prominent scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf is designed for scholars and graduate students. Feminist to the core, each chapter examines an aspect of Woolf’s achievement and legacy. Each contribution offers an overview that is at once fresh and thoroughly grounded in prior scholarship. Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) wrote prolifically and experimentally. In all she wrote and did, she strove for the rights of women artists: she was a feminist. This volume’s six parts take her feminism and her experiments in language as foundational to her legacy: the opening Part I has a biographical focus; then the chapters in Part II examine her career, holistically and chronologically; Part III offers more detail on the extent of her experimental and aesthetic practices, taking aspects of her innovation across multiple genres, examining each along the span of her career; Part IV invites readers to consider how Woolf worked in cultural fields including and extending beyond the Hogarth Press and the TLS and Part V ‘Contexts’ moves beyond writing to depict her engagement with expectations of class and gender, the natural world, as well as the political, artistic, and popular culture of her time. Finally, ‘Afterlives’ demonstrates the many ways Woolf’s reputation continues to grow, across the globe, and across media, in ideas and in artistic expression. Chapters on Woolf’s engagement with feminism and suffrage are followed by chapters on Woolf’s posthumous influence on conversations around queer and feminist theory. Of particular note is that chapters explore three distinct Woolfian traditions in fiction: the novel of manners, magical realism, and the feminist novel.

scholarly journals Nature · Animals · Non-Human: A Study of Community Consciousness in The Night Watchman

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 22-26
Author(s):  
Qu Tang
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Ecological Environment ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Survival ◽  
The Core

The Night Watchman written by Louis Erdrich won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The core characters running through the novel are not only Thomas Wazhashk, but Patrice who bears the burden of narrating the natural world of the Turtle Mountain reserve. Louis Erdrich not only noticed the connection between females and nature with keen eyes, but also human and non-humans. The interaction among them reflects the author’s thoughts on the ecological environment, human survival, and indigenous tradition conflicted with modern appeal. Therefore, this article, using the Biocentric Equality of deep ecology, explores the Community Consciousness in the novel.

scholarly journals CANADIAN MANUFACTURERS AND EXPORTERS DISCOVERY PROGRAM

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Laing
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Students ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Art And Technology ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Career Option ◽  
Discovery Program ◽  
Problem Solve ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

In the news and ever present on the minds of people in the technology and manufacturing sector is Canada’s need to replace nearly four hundred thousand skilled employees who will be progressively retiring over the next several years. To compound this problem, there has been a steady decline in student enrollment in the secondary and post secondary institutions in the science and technology areas (one of the main human resource feeds). Part of the reason for this can be directly related to a lack of awareness, not only to the diverse and exciting career opportunities found in contemporary manufacturing, but also just how important this sector of the economy will be to Canada’s future. This paper explores the success of the CME (Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters) pilot discovery program initiated by Design Engineering from the University of Manitoba. The initiative was directly aimed at secondary students from science, math, business, art, and technology programs. The main objective was to inspire these students by allowing them to experience first hand the many exciting facets of modern-day manufacturing. This was achieved by a hands-on approach to designing, building, and testing a project using their ingenuity to problem solve and the latest type of technology to fabricate their design. The success of this program was at the very least to be aware of a career option they may not of otherwise considered, and at the very most an opportunity to take the first steps to an exciting and rewarding career with the many possibilities that manufacturing has to offer.

scholarly journals Magical Realism in Aḥmad Sa‘dāwiy’s Frankenstein fī Bagdād

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 142
Author(s):  
Mahmudah Mahmudah
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Conflict ◽  
Magical Realism ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Magic Realism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Literary Device ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship

This article discusses the use of magic realism as a literary device in the Iraqi novel Frankenstein fī Bagdād written by Aḥmad Sa‘dāwiy. The novel is set in the period of inter-ethnic conflict which arose after the American invasion of 2003. Hādī, the main character of the novel, ‘creates a monster’ namely Syismah from the corpses of the many bomb victims in Baghdad. The writer combines setting of the novel with belief of the Iraq people, horoscope practice, and magic, in mystical and illogical atmosphere. Given its magic realist qualities, the analysis draws on the approach of Wendy B. Faris. The article identifies five key elements from magic realism present in the novel, and discusses the relationship between these elements in order to better understand the social, ideological, and political context of the novel. The analysis shows that there are relationships between two worlds: death and life, human and ghost, physical and metaphysical, natural and supernatural.

Advise and Reject: Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press, and a Forgotten Woman’s Voice

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane F. Gillespie
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Class Hierarchies ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Delayed Rejection ◽  
Hogarth Press ◽  
Woman's Voice

In 1939, Virginia Woolf was distracted by writing projects, relocation of living and publishing quarters in London, and another impending world war. Yet she typed on behalf of the Hogarth Press a delayed rejection letter, previously unknown and unpublished, to aspiring novelist Anne Northgrave Tibble. The advice in Woolf’s letter reveals her own definition of the novel. Tibble’s forgotten voice, in her one published novel from this period, challenges, as does Woolf, war and class hierarchies, but from a different perspective. Red-brick-educated, Tibble never forgot her rural roots in North Yorkshire and consistently identified with the working classes. If Tibble is mentioned now, it is for her life writing, including scholarly biographies and a candid three-volume autobiography.

Reading the Times

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
The Novel ◽  
William Gibson ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Times ◽  
Twentieth Century Fiction

From the Prime Meridian Conference of 1884 to the celebration of the millennium in 2000; from the fiction of Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf to the novels of William Gibson and W.G. Sebald, Reading the Times offers fresh insight into modern narrative. It shows how profoundly the structure and themes of the novel depend on attitudes to the clock and to the sense of history’s progress, tracing their origins in technologic, economic and social change. It offers a new and powerful way of understanding the relations of history with narrative form, outlining their development and demonstrating – through incisive analyses of a very wide range of texts from late C19th to early C21st – their key role in shaping fictional narrative throughout this period. The result is a highly innovative literary history of the twentieth-century fiction, based on an inventive, enabling method of understanding literature in relation to history – in terms, in every sense, of its reading of its times.

Gabriel García Márquez and the Remaking of the World Canon

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-109
Author(s):  
Juan E. De Castro
Keyword(s):  
William Faulkner ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Magical Realism ◽  
Gabriel Garcia Marquez ◽  
Postcolonial Literature ◽  
Mario Vargas Llosa ◽  
Global South ◽  
The Core ◽  
The North

Given the central role played by One Hundred Years of Solitude in determining what today is understood as postcolonial literature, it may surprise readers of his memoirs or, for that matter, of his early journalism, to discover that Gabriel García Márquez’s literary role models were almost exclusively European or North American. For the young García Márquez, authors who today constitute the core of the modernist canon, in particular Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner, shaped his vision of what narrative should be like. However, in this admiration and appropriation of modernism, García Márquez was not alone. For instance, his younger contemporary Mario Vargas Llosa has also acknowledged the central influence of Faulkner on his works. As Pascale Casanova has noted, both García Márquez and Vargas Llosa belong to the myriad of twentieth-century novelists who found in modernist writers and, in particular, Faulkner, a “temporal accelerator” that made their novels seem contemporaneous to those produced in Europe and North America and therefore understandable by critics and general readers in those countries. However, in a twist that serves as proof of García Márquez’s literary success, his particular reinterpretation of Faulkner’s and other modernists’ writings in turn served as a model for many other writers from the so-called Global South. This article studies the manner in which García Márquez’s “magical realism,” derived from his readings of the modernist canon, became a new “temporal accelerator” that made the experiences of the Global South understandable by readers in the North.

scholarly journals PEREMPUAN, ALAM, SILUMAN, DAN TABU DALAM NOVEL BURAK SILUMAN KARYA MOH. AMBRI: TINJAUAN REALISME MAGIS

Tsaqofah ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (02) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Asep Yusup Hudayat
Keyword(s):  
Magical Realism ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
The Novel ◽  
East Indies ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Dutch East Indies ◽  
Core Idea

Women, nature, ghost, and taboo are the main discourses related to magical realism in “Burak Siluman”, a novel by Moh. Ambri. In Burak Siluman, women (the main sign) were connected to the discourse of nature, ghost, and taboo. In it, women represent the suppressed desires of the lower class for wealth, position, honor wrapped in narratives of fascination, search, wandering, misfortune, and a curse. Discourses on the supernatural, half-ghost, and taboo legends in the novel are important traditional realities that are studied and seen by the workings of the concepts of magical realism in the colonial period of the Dutch East Indies. The main problem is: how does the concept of magical realism affect the construction of the world (physical and supernatural), especially related to ghost and taboo narratives in “Burak Siluman”. Thus, the main objective of this research is the interaction of the influence of magical realism on narratives construction related to women, nature, ghost, and taboo. To resolve the issue, the concept of contemporary magical realism is used from a postcolonial perspective. The results of this study is the placement of the "between" space (magic in rational) which is represented in the wandering figure is the core idea of ​​magical realism in “Burak Siluman”.

‘BLAST First (from politeness) ENGLAND’: The Manifesto in Britain and Ireland

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Hanna
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Ezra Pound ◽  
Wyndham Lewis ◽  
Italian Futurism ◽  
Free Zone ◽  
Hugh Macdiarmid ◽  
The Times

Aside from the familiar story of Vorticists and Imagists before the war, no detailed analysis of manifestos in Britain (or Ireland) exists. It is true that, by 1914, there had been such an upsurge in manifesto writing that a review of BLAST in The Times (1 July 1914) began: ‘The art of the present day seems to be exhausting its energies in “manifestoes.”’ But after the brief fire ignited by the arrival of Italian Futurism died out, Britain again became a manifesto-free zone. Or did it? While a mania for the militant genre did not take hold in Britain and Ireland the same way it did in France, Italy, Germany, or Russia, the manifesto did enjoy a small but dedicated following that included Whistler, Wilde, and Yeats; Patrick Geddes and Hugh MacDiarmid; Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound; Dora Marsden and Virginia Woolf; and Auden, MacNeice, and Spender. Through these and other figures it is possible to trace the development of a manifesto tradition specific to Britain and Ireland.

Untimely Development, Ugly History:A Drama in Muslinand the Rejection of National-Historical Time

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-183
Author(s):  
Mary L. Mullen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Core

This article considers the politics and aesthetics of the colonial Bildungsroman by reading George Moore's often-overlooked novel A Drama in Muslin (1886). It argues that the colonial Bildungsroman does not simply register difference from the metropolitan novel of development or express tension between the core and periphery, as Jed Esty suggests, but rather can imagine a heterogeneous historical time that does not find its end in the nation-state. A Drama in Muslin combines naturalist and realist modes, and moves between Ireland and England to construct a form of untimely development that emphasises political processes (dissent, negotiation) rather than political forms (the state, the nation). Ultimately, the messy, discordant history represented in the novel shows the political potential of anachronism as it celebrates the untimeliness of everyday life.

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