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1 online resource (x, 194 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-189) and index. |
Contents |
The demon of reading -- The figment of the author -- Personalities -- Woolf's personalities -- The Sibyl of the drawing room -- The author -- The critic -- The world writer -- The adventurer -- Epilogue -- Anon once more. |
Summary |
Where other works of literary criticism are absorbed with the question--How to read a book?--Imagining Virginia Woolf asks a slightly different but more intriguing one: how does one read an author? Maria DiBattista answers this by undertaking an experiment in critical biography. The subject of this work is not Virginia Woolf, the person who wrote the novels, criticism, letters, and famous diary, but a different being altogether, someone or something Maria DiBattista identifies as "the figment of the author." This is the Virginia Woolf who lives intermittently in the pages of her writings and i. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. |
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Psychology.
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Psychology. |
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. |
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Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Authors, English. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Subject |
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Psychology.
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Authorship -- Psychological aspects.
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Authorship -- Psychological aspects. |
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Personality in literature.
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Personality in literature. |
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Authors and readers.
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Authors and readers. |
Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Other Form: |
Print version: DiBattista, Maria, 1947- Imagining Virginia Woolf. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2009 9780691138121 0691138125 (DLC) 2008017145 (OCoLC)224447546 |
ISBN |
9781400830046 (electronic book) |
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1400830044 (electronic book) |
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9780691138121 |
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0691138125 |
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