Ce volume collectif cherche à évaluer la contemporanéité de Virginia Woolf à son époque comme aujourd'hui. Les articles réunis donnent à comprendre comment la production de formes intempestives permet à l'écrivaine d'éclairer son présent. Ils montrent également comment son oeuvre est lue et interprétée aujourd'hui : comme la préfiguration de l'avenir et du siècle actuel. ©Electre 2024
The present volume seeks to explore the implications of Woolf's contemporaneity in terms of her own era and of ours. By looking at how one can grasp the meaning of one's time from within and without, it traces ways in which her fictional as well as non-fictional works reflect on or engage with those forms of untimeliness or out-of-timeness in the present which enable an author to see its shadows or perceive its obscurity. While the undertaking suggests a philosophically-inclined quest, it is no less inscribed in acutely topical, political issues as it is necessarily in the search for a poetics corresponding to Woolf's vision. Attempting to understand Virginia Woolf's complex relationship with her time also sheds light on how we read and engage with her works today. It reveals ways of understanding her writing as an indictment of the barbarity she perceived in her age and in the culture it both inherited and produced, defining those crystallising moments when the present of writing becomes contemporary to us and glimpsing spectres at work within her texts as not only ghosts of the past but the premonitory figures of our own century.
Paru le : 04/06/2014
Thématique : Essais et théories - Dictionnaire
Auteur(s) : Non précisé.
Éditeur(s) :
Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Collection(s) : Horizons anglophones
Contributeur(s) : Directeur de publication : Claire Pégon - Directeur de publication : Anne-Marie Smith-Di Biasio
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-2-36781-031-7
EAN13 : 9782367810317
Reliure : Broché
Pages : 261
Hauteur: 24.0 cm / Largeur 16.0 cm
Épaisseur: 1.5 cm
Poids: 600 g
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