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7) The hours
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"In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The narrative of Woolf's last days before her suicide early in World War II counterpoints the fictional stories of Samuel, a famous poet whose life has been...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Drawing on some of the main critical debates and on Woolf's non-fictional writings, this guide untangles some of the difficulties that can prove a barrier to understanding Woolf's writing. These include aspects of the process of writing (such as narrative technique, formal innovation and characterization), as well as the thematic concerns so central to Woolf's work and to the cultural context in which it emerged, including representations of gender,...
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[2019]
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First edition.
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English
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Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his death--a calamity that claimed her favorite person--she returned to that beloved novel as a way of wrestling with his memory and understanding her own grief. Smyth's story moves between the New England of her childhood and...
14) Virginia Woolf
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Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 243
Pub. Date
[1989]
Edition
Revised edition.
Language
English
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