War and Peace

2021 ◽  
pp. 439-455
Author(s):  
Beryl Pong
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Three Guineas ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Between The Acts ◽  
Global War ◽  
Jacob's Room

This chapter examines the intertwining of modernist time philosophy with the recurring theme of global war in Woolf’s oeuvre. Looking at a range of texts—including Jacob’s Room, Mrs Dalloway, Three Guineas, The Years, and Between the Acts—it examines how Woolf’s work developed in relation to the major geopolitical events that preoccupied her pacifist activism and informed her temporal innovations. It argues for the need to temporalize her relationship to what Martin Hägglund calls chronolibido—the investment in temporal finitude rather than temporal transcendence—which has to be understood both philosophically as well as politically, to understand how her desire to hold on to a life essentially mortal took shape in the context of seemingly unending war in the early twentieth century.

“Peace as awakeness to the precariousness of the other”

2020 ◽  
pp. 81-94
Author(s):  
Elsa Högberg
Keyword(s):  
Specific Form ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
Unresolved Question ◽  
Three Guineas ◽  
Primary Responsibility ◽  
Between The Acts ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Waves ◽  
Jacob's Room

In this chapter, Högberg traces a specific form of non-violent ethics across Woolf’s interwar and WWII writings, considering its political potential and limits. Focusing on Emmanuel Levinas’s idea of ‘The face as the extreme precariousness of the other. Peace as awakeness to the precariousness of the other’(Levinas, ‘Peace and Proximity’, 1984) alongside Judith Butler’s attempts to politicise his ethics of precariousness, this chapter shows how Woolf foregrounds vulnerability as an ethical injunction against violence. Arguing that Woolf’s work prompts a still unresolved question as to whether a pacifist ethics can be politically productive, Högberg reads Woolf’s pacifism as rooted in a concept of peace as proximity: the proximity of the ethical encounter, which prompts awakeness to the other’s vulnerability. The chapter ranges from Woolf’s Levinasian elevation, in Three Guineas, of a primary responsibility to Antigone’s Law of love, peace and proximity over the laws of the sovereign state to her literary articulations of an alternatively Levinasian and Butlerian ethics of peace and precariousness in Jacob’s Room, The Waves and Between the Acts. Voiced through poetic tropes of naked defencelessness and extra-linguistic, primal cries, Woolf’s pacifist ethics floods the boundaries defining Europe in a relocation of its ‘Greek’ origins, and in defiance against its political constructions of the other’s precarious face as a threat, which continue to justify the scandalous closing of European borders to ‘millions of bodies’ made vulnerable by war.

Woolf’s Feminism

2021 ◽  
pp. 310-325
Author(s):  
Stephanie J. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
Three Guineas ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Room Of One's Own ◽  
Power Economic

The fullness of Woolf’s engagement with early-twentieth-century feminism has at times been overshadowed by the prominence given A Room of One’s Own, and by longstanding archival obstacles to accessing her extensive work in periodicals. This chapter aims to offer an overview of Woolf’s engagement with British feminism during her lifetime, and to promote a richer conversation about how Woolf’s fiction, journalism, and essays, as well as A Room and Three Guineas, reflect a sustained engagement with, contributions to, and wariness of the feminist concerns of her day. Her responses to women’s suffrage, worker’s rights, the legal status of married women, education, political power, economic parity, and pacifism were unified by her consistent endeavors to draw attention to patriarchy as structuring public perceptions of ‘women’s issues’. (125)

Biopower

2021 ◽  
pp. 407-421
Author(s):  
Madelyn Detloff
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Mental Health Practitioners ◽  
Rich Picture ◽  
Three Guineas ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Health Practitioners

Virginia Woolf lived and worked during the ascendancy of Euro-American biopower. This essay takes up the tools of queer, crip, and antiracist theories to analyse Woolf’s engagement with three strands of biopower—state racism, heteronormativity, and ableist normativity—as well as a fourth Woolfian form elaborated upon in Three Guineas, state genderism. We can trace the entwinement of biopower in the racist and ableist elements of Woolf’s own work, accounts of how Woolf herself was treated by medical and mental health practitioners, and in Woolf’s own attempts to break down reified notions of desire and bodily comportment that are harmfully crystalized by biopolitical discourse. Woolf’s engagement with biopower is not always progressive, but the complexities of her art and work yield a rich picture of how biopower worked in the early twentieth century and how artists and intellectuals both deployed and resisted its workings.

Some Polish Composers of To-Day

Tempo ◽  
1948 ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Andrzej Panufnik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fertile Soil ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Group ◽  
Karol Szymanowski

It is ten years since KAROL SZYMANOWSKI died at fifty-four. He was the most prominent representative of the “radical progressive” group of early twentieth century composers, which we call “Young Poland.” In their manysided and pioneering efforts they prepared the fertile soil on which Poland's present day's music thrives.

V1214: Edward Loughborough Keyes: An Early Twentieth Century Leader In Urology

2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 320-320
Author(s):  
Peter J. Stahl ◽  
E. Darracott Vaughan ◽  
Edward S. Belt ◽  
David A. Bloom ◽  
Ann Arbor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

New insights into the controversy surrounding marine biological laboratory (Marine Station) facilities in the Firth of Clyde in the early twentieth century

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-170
Author(s):  
P. G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Marine Biological Laboratory ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Biological Laboratory ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Marine Station ◽  
Regius Professor ◽  
Adjacent Island

Three letters from the Sheina Marshall archive at the former University Marine Biological Station Millport (UMBSM) reveal the pivotal significance of Sheina Marshall's father, Dr John Nairn Marshall, behind the scheme planned by Glasgow University's Regius Professor of Zoology, John Graham Kerr. He proposed to build an alternative marine station facility on Cumbrae's adjacent island of Bute in the Firth of Clyde in the early years of the twentieth century to cater predominantly for marine researchers.

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