Angeliki Spiropoulou
Palgrave Macmillan UK
e druk, 2010
9780230537583
Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History
Constellations with Walter Benjamin
Specificaties
Gebonden, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK |
2010
ISBN13: 9780230537583
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
Gratis verzonden
Samenvatting
This book analyses the representation of the past and the practice of historiography in the fiction and critical writings of Virginia Woolf, and draws parallels between Woolf's historiographical imagination and the thought of Walter Benjamin, the German philosopher of history and key theorist of modernity.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780230537583
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
Hoofdrubriek:Woordenboeken en taal
Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Reading Virginia Woolf in Constellation with Walter Benjamin.- Modernity, Modernism and the Past.- Theories of History, Models of Historiography.- Antiquity and Modernity: Jacob's Room and the 'Greek Myth'.- Historical Fictions, Fictional Fashions and Time: Orlando as the 'Angel of History'.- Natural History and Historical Nature in To the Lighthouse and Other Fiction.- Dreaming, History and the Visions of the Obscure in The Years.- This Stage of History: Between the Acts and the Destruction of Tradition.- A 'Common History': Anonymous Artists, Communal Collectivities.