Virginia Woolf and the Problem of the Subject: Feminine Writing in the Major Novels
Makiko Minow-PinkneyThis classic study shows that Woolf's most experimental writing is far from being a flight from social commitment into arcane modernism. Indeed, it is best seen as a feminist subversion of the deepest formal principles of a patriarchal social order: the very definitions of narrative, writing and the subject.
In a series of subtle readings of five major novels - Jacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and The Waves - closely informed by psychoanalytic theory, Makiko Minow-Pinkney presents Woolf as a committed feminist whose politics emerged as an aspect of her experimentation with language and form.
Year:
2022
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
224
ISBN 10:
1474471048
ISBN 13:
9781474471046
File:
PDF, 7.36 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2022