Daniel T. O'Hara

Virginia Woolf and the Modern Sublime

The Invisible Tribunal

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Produktbeschreibung

Virginia Woolf and the Modern Sublime argues that Virginia Woolf transformed the sublime experience in her writing to make room for the democratic invention of female genius. From canonical to lesser known works, O'Hara places her ironic novels in the revisionary literary and critical tradition extending from the Elizabethans to the present.

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Sublime Woolf was written in a burst of enthusiasm after the author, Daniel T. O'Hara was finally able to teach Virginia Woolf's modernist classics again. This book focuses on those uncanny visionary passages when in elaborating 'a moment of being,' as Woolf terms it, supplements creatively the imaginative resonance of the scene.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-59059-6
• 2015
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9781137590596
• ISBN-10: 1137590599
• Artikelnr.: 43778985

Autorenporträt

Daniel T. O Hara, Professor of English and Inaugural Mellon Term Professor of Humanities at Temple University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Like Giving Birth to a Dead White Star: An Introduction To the Modern
Sublime in Virginia Woolf 2. Burning Through Every Context: On Narrating
The Modern Sublime in Jacob's Room 3. The Uncanny Muse of Creative Reading:
On The New Cambridge Edition of Mrs. Dalloway 4. The Modern Sublime in To
the Lighthouse 5. The Revisionary Muse in On Being Ill: Literary Politics,
Modernist-Style 6. 'Unborn Selves' in The Waves 7. The Self-Revising Muse:
On the Spirit of The Unborn Creator in A Room of One's Own 8. Coda: 'Images
of Voice' and the Art of the Sublime

Rezensionen

"One of the century's great writers, Virginia Woolf was also one of its greatest readers. In Virginia Woolf and the Modern Sublime: The Invisible Tribunal, Daniel O'Hara demonstrates how Woolf's sensitive readings shape the exquisite character and sublime power of her own prose, which frequently combines the specific detail of modern experience with a grandeur associated with an earlier epoch. O'Hara's grounding in romanticism informs his revisionary interpretation of Woolf's modernism. As a result, O'Hara's study produces an aesthetically and historically rich understanding of not just Woolf's own corpus but also of the power of literature to shape ourselves and the worlds we inhabit."

Robert T. Tally Jr., Associate Professor of English, Texas State University, USA