Roger Poole The unknown Virginia Woolf

In this study Poole revised the conventional view of Woolf as 'mad' by treating her breakdown as socially intelligible. The theme of madness was reconceived in order to provide an intellectual biography that traced Woolf's fear and resentment to her childhood and adolescence. Poole uses the phenomenological concept of embodiment to address the concealed intentionality that lies behind apparently deviant behaviour. He shows how Woolf's challenge to accepted conventions of communication, in both her...

Engels | 285 pagina's | Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] | 1978

Gedrukt boek