Virginia Woolf's Essayism

by Randi Saloman

Book Overview

The focus of this study is on Virginia Woolf's vast output of essays and their relation to her fiction. Randi Saloman shows that it was by employing tools and methods drawn from the essay genre - such as fragmentation, stream-of-consciousness and dialogic engagement with the reader - that Woolf managed to leave behind the realism of the 19th-century novel. Saloman draws on key theorists of the essay such as T. W. Adorno and Georg Luk cs, as well...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748694102
• ISBN13: 9780748694105
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"