Virginia Woolf and the Problem of the Subject: Feminine Writing in the Major Novels
This 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.
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Virginia Woolf and the Problem of the Subject: Feminine Writing in the Major Novels
This 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.
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Virginia Woolf and the Problem of the Subject: Feminine Writing in the Major Novels

Virginia Woolf and the Problem of the Subject: Feminine Writing in the Major Novels

by Makiko Minow-Pinkney
Virginia Woolf and the Problem of the Subject: Feminine Writing in the Major Novels
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Virginia Woolf and the Problem of the Subject: Feminine Writing in the Major Novels

Virginia Woolf and the Problem of the Subject: Feminine Writing in the Major Novels

by Makiko Minow-Pinkney

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This 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780748686827
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 09/22/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 416 KB

About the Author

Makiko Minow-Pinkney is Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts, Media and Education at the University of Bolton

Table of Contents

Preface; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. Feminism and Modernism in Woolf; 2. Jacob's Room; 3. Mrs. Dalloway; 4. To the Lighthouse; 5. Orlando; 6. The Waves; Conclusion: A New Subjectivity; Notes; Index.
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