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Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory: Sex, Animal, Life

Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory: Sex, Animal, Life

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1474402348
ISBN13: 9781474402347
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Sep 1 2015
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Explores Woolf's writing alongside Deleuzian philosophy and new materialist theories of 'sex', 'animal', and 'life'
How does Virginia Woolf conceptualise the material world? In what ways has Woolf's modernism affected understandings of materiality, and what new perspectives does she offer contemporary theoretical debates? Derek Ryan demonstrates how materiality is theorised in Woolf's writings by focusing on the connections she makes between culture and nature, embodiment and environment, human and nonhuman, life and matter. Through close readings of texts including To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One's Own, The Waves, and Flush, he details the insights Woolf provides into issues concerning the natural world, sexual difference, sexuality, animality, and life itself.

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