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Sentencing Orlando : Virginia Woolf and the morphology of the modernist sentence /

The present collection of 16 original essays offers fresh perspectives on Orlando through a unique attention to Woolf's sentences.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Högberg, Elsa, 1983- (Author, Editor), Bromley, Amy (Author, Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction: Sentencing Orlando; Chapter 1 'The Queen had come': Orgasm and Arrival; Chapter 2 'Something intricate and many-chambered': Sexuality and the Embodied Sentence; Chapter 3 Woolf, De Quincey and the Legacy of 'Impassioned Prose'; Chapter 4 Rhythms of Revision and Revisiting: Unpicking the Past in Orlando; Chapter 5 'Let us go, then, exploring': Intertextual Conversations on the Meaning of Life; Chapter 6 '. . . and nothing whatever happened': Orlando's Continuous Eruptive Form
  • Chapter 7 Orlando, Greece and the Impossible LandscapeChapter 8 Orlando Famoso: Obscurity, Fame and History in Orlando; Chapter 9 Bibliographic Parturition in Orlando: Books, Babies, Freedom and Fame; Chapter 10 The Day of Orlando; Chapter 11 Satzdenken, Indeterminacy and the Polyvalent Audience; Chapter 12 In Amorous Dedication: The Phrase, the Figure and the Lover's Discourse; Chapter 13 A Spirit in Flux: Aestheticism, Evolution and Religion; Chapter 14 Sir Thomas Browne and the Reading of Remains in Orlando
  • Chapter 15 The Negress and the Bishop: On Marriage, Colonialism and the Problem of KnowledgeChapter 16 Orlando and tThe Politics of (In)Conclusiveness; Aftersentence; Index