Modernist Waterscapes : Water, Imagination and Materiality in the Works of Virginia Woolf Hardback
by Marlene Dirschauer
Part of the Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies series
Hardback
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This book identifies water as the key element of Virginia Woolf’s modernist poetics.
The various forms, movements, and properties of water inspired Woolf’s writing of reality, time, and bodies and offered her an apt medium to reflect on the possibilities as well as on the exhaustion of her art.
As a deeply intertextual writer, Woolf recognised how profoundly water has shaped human imagination and the landscape of the literary past.
In line with recent ecocritical and ecofeminist assessments of her works, this book also shows Woolf’s attraction to water as part of an indifferent nature that exists prior to and beyond the symbolic.
Through close analyses that span the whole of Woolf’s oeuvre, and that centre on the metaphorical and the material voices of water in her works, Modernist Waterscapes offers a fresh perspective on a writing that is as versatile as the element from which it draws.
The monograph addresses postgraduate students and scholars working in modernist studies andWoolf studies in particular.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:221 pages, XV, 221 p.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:05/01/2023
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- ISBN:9783031134203
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:221 pages, XV, 221 p.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:05/01/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9783031134203
