Contradictory Woolf
( Clemson University Press: Woolf Selected Papers )
Publication series ：Clemson University Press: Woolf Selected Papers
Author： Ryan Derek Bolaki Stella
Publisher： Liverpool University Press
Publication year： 2012
E-ISBN: 9781942954118
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780983533955
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Description
Contradictory Woolf is a collection of essays selected from approximately 200 papers presented at the 21st Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, hosted by the University of Glasgow. The theme of contradiction in Woolf's writing, including her use of the word 'but', is widely explored in relation to auto/biography, art, philosophy, cognitive science, sexuality, animality, class, mathematics, translation, annotation, poetry, and war. Among the essays collected in this volume are the five keynote addresses—by Judith Allen, Suzanne Bellamy, Marina Warner, Patricia Waugh, and Michael Whitworth—as well as a preface by Jane Goldman and an introduction by the editors. Edited collection from acclaimed contemporary Woolf scholars, exploring the theme of contradiction in Virginia Woolf’s writing. Impressive line up of international contributors. Distinguished contributors include Marina Warner and Cecil Woolf. Brings together the best of contemporary Woolf scholarship. Notes on Contributors: Judith Allen leads the Virginia Woolf Reading Group at Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. Her book, Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Language, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2010. Her chapter on “Feminist Politics” will be included in Virginia Woolf in Context, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, and she is currently writing a monograph on Woolf and Montaigne for Cecil Woolf ’s Bloomsbury Heritage Series. Suzanne Bellamy is an Australian artist and writer, currently completing a PhD at the University of Sydney. Website: suzannebellamy.com Ian Blyth is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of English, University of St Andrews, and a member of the Editorial Board for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf, for which he is co-editing Orlando (with Suzanne Raitt). His published works include Hélène Cixous: Live Theory (2004), and various articles on Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. Stella Bolaki is a Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Kent. She is author of Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic American Women’s Fiction (2011) and has published articles in MELUS, Mosaic and Textual Practice. She is currently writing a monograph on cross-genre illness narratives, and she is co-editor, with Sabine Broeck, of a forthcoming collection of essays on Audre Lorde’s transnational legacy. Wayne Chapman is Professor of English at Clemson University, editor of Th e South Carolina Review, and executive editor of Clemson University Digital Press. His most recent book is Yeats’s Poetry in the Making: “Sing Whatever Is Well Made” (Palgrave Macmillan 2010). With Janet M. Manson, he is the co-author of An Annotated Guide to the Writings and Papers of Leonard Woolf (2006) and co-editor of Women in the Milieu of Leonard and Virginia Woolf: Peace, Politics, and Education (1998). John Coyle is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. His main interests lie in the field of modernist and postmodernist literature from an international perspective. He has published articles on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alain-Fournier, Proust, and Joyce, and has edited two introductory studies on Joyce. Kristin Czarnecki is an associate professor of English at Georgetown College. Her work has been published in the Journal of Modern Literature, the Journal of Beckett Studies, College Literature, and the CEA Critic, among others. Her current project involves Kriste
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