Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys and the aesthetics of trauma /
Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma studies the intersections of modernism, sexuality, and subjectivity in the work of two leading women modernists. Over the course of her writing career, each came to confront those aspects of her culture and her personal history that resulted in...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
---|---|
Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
New York ; Houndmills, Basingstoke and Hampshire :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
|
Edición: | 1st ed. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Experiences as a body : Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the aesthetics of trauma
- "Cock-a-doodle-dum" : Desmond MacCarthy, Sexology, and the writing of A room of one's own
- "The flaw in the centre" : writing as hymenal rupture in Virginia Woolf's work
- Gunpowder plots : sexuality and censorship in Woolf's later works
- When the pervert meets the hysteric : Jean Rhys's black exercise book
- "A doormat in a world of boots" : Jean Rhys and the masochistic aesthetic
- Epilogue : "The one dependable thing in a world of strife, ruin, chaos" : writing trauma, writing self.