- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press (14 Jun 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 074862435X
- ISBN-13: 978-0748624355
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.4 x 1.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,048,712 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Each essay casts a fresh eye over well-scrutinised texts. ! Blurred images ! were suddenly rendered sharp and clean by seeing them through Brigg's lens. ! This is academic writing of the highest order. Virginia Woolf Bulletin All of the essays are intriguing, providing rare, inspired and provocative readings of Woolf's work embedded in strong historical and biographical context. -- Vara Neverow, Southern Connecticut State University and President of the International Virginia Woolf Society Julia Brigg's wide-ranging collection of essays provides readers with multiple avenues by which to explore Virginia Woolf's canon ... This is a book that presents, as Woolf explains in "Modern Fiction" of life itself, "question after question which must be left to sound on and on after the story is over." -- Andrea Adolph, Kent State University Stark Campus Woolf Studies Annual [An] elegant collection of fourteen essays. Times Literary Supplement Her interpretations and conclusions are stunning in their logic, solid in their scholarship, persuasive in their tone, and stimulating in their implications. Brigg's immersion in Woolf, her wide knowledge, sensitive reading, curious spirit, and love of literature show on every page. To top it off, she writes beautifully. Virginia Woolf Miscellany Each essay casts a fresh eye over well-scrutinised texts. ! Blurred images ! were suddenly rendered sharp and clean by seeing them through Brigg's lens. ! This is academic writing of the highest order. All of the essays are intriguing, providing rare, inspired and provocative readings of Woolf's work embedded in strong historical and biographical context. Julia Brigg's wide-ranging collection of essays provides readers with multiple avenues by which to explore Virginia Woolf's canon ... This is a book that presents, as Woolf explains in "Modern Fiction" of life itself, "question after question which must be left to sound on and on after the story is over." [An] elegant collection of fourteen essays. Her interpretations and conclusions are stunning in their logic, solid in their scholarship, persuasive in their tone, and stimulating in their implications. Brigg's immersion in Woolf, her wide knowledge, sensitive reading, curious spirit, and love of literature show on every page. To top it off, she writes beautifully.
Vara Neverow, Southern Connecticut State University and resident of the International Virginia Woolf Society
`All of the essays are intriguing, providing rare, inspired and
provocative readings of Woolf's work.' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
provocative readings of Woolf's work.' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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