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the reading of silence: virginia woolf in the english tradition
[Paperback - 1993]
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Publisher: Stanford University Press Usa | ISBN: 9780804721790 | Pages: 256
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This is a study of Virginia Woolf's lifelong preoccupation with silence and the barrier between the sayable and the unsayable. Using a wide range of thinkers from Kierkegaard to Kristeva and Derrida, Laurence demonstrates convincingly that Woolf was the first modern woman novelist to practice silence in her writing and that, in so doing, she created a new language of the mind and changed the metaphor of silence from one of absence or oppression to one of presence and strength. It suggests new directions for Woolf criticism.

Patricia Laurence is a writer, critic, and professor of English at the City University of New York. She has written widely on Virginia Woolf, transnational Modernism, Bloomsbury, contemporary novelists, modernist women writers, Republican era Chinese literature and biography.. She currently reviews for Review of Contemporary Fiction, and English Literature in Transition. Her publications include Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism and China (University of South Carolina Press, 2003), translated into Chinese (Shanghai Bookstore Press), 2008; and The Reading of Silence: Virginia Woolf in the English Tradition (Stanford University Press, 1992). She is currently completing a biography of Elizabeth Bowen.-- from her official website,http://www.patricialaurence.com/index...

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