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" Virginia Woolf and the politics of language / "
by Judith Allen
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BL
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633284
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Allen, Judith
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Virginia Woolf and the politics of language /\ by Judith Allen
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x, 133 pages ;; 24 cm
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9780748636754 (hbk.)
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: 0748636757 (hbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [119]-125) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction. From Michel de Montaigne to the new media : reading Virginia Woolf in the twenty-first century -- 'Theorising' reading, 'theorising' language: Those soul mates : Virginia Woolf and Michel de Montaigne ; Changing titles/transforming texts? -- The politics of writing: The rhetoric of performance in A room of one's own ; Interrogating 'wildness' -- Dialogue and dissent: Thinking and talking/war and peace ; Virginia Woolf, 'patriotism', and 'our prostituted fact-purveyors' -- Conclusion: 'Thinking against the current'
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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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Woolf, Virginia,1882-1941-- Criticism and interpretation
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Woolf, Virginia,1882-1941-- Language
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Politics in literature
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823.912
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PR6045.O72Z5373 2010
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