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Woolf, Virginia --- Woolf, Virginia, --- Women and literature --- History --- Woolf, Virginia Stephen, --- Stephen, Virginia, --- Ulf, Virzhinii︠a︡, --- Ṿolf, Ṿirg'inyah, --- Vulf, Virdzhinii︠a︡, --- Вулф, Вирджиния, --- וולף, וירג׳יניה --- וולף, וירג׳יניה, --- Stephen, Adeline Virginia, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Where other works of literary criticism are absorbed with the question--How to read a book?--Imagining Virginia Woolf asks a slightly different but more intriguing one: how does one read an author? Maria DiBattista answers this by undertaking an experiment in critical biography. The subject of this work is not Virginia Woolf, the person who wrote the novels, criticism, letters, and famous diary, but a different being altogether, someone or something Maria DiBattista identifies as "the figment of the author." This is the Virginia Woolf who lives intermittently in the pages of her writings and in the imagination of her readers. Drawing on Woolf's own extensive remarks on the pleasures and perils of reading, DiBattista argues that reading Woolf, in fact reading any author, involves an encounter with this imaginative figment, whose distinct, stylistic traits combine to produce that beguiling phantom--the literary personality. DiBattista reveals a writer who possessed not a single personality, but a cluster of distinct, yet complementary identities: the Sibyl of Bloomsbury, the Author, the Critic, the World Writer, and the Adventurer, the last of which, DiBattista claims, unites them all. Imagining Virginia Woolf provides an original way of reading, one that captures with variety and subtlety the personality that exists only in Woolf's works and in the minds of her readers.

Authors and readers. --- Personality in literature. --- Authorship --- Authors, English --- Readers and authors --- English authors --- Psychological aspects. --- Psychology. --- Woolf, Virginia, --- Authors and readers --- Personality in literature --- 820 "19" WOOLF, VIRGINIA --- 820 "19" WOOLF, VIRGINIA Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--WOOLF, VIRGINIA --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--WOOLF, VIRGINIA --- Psychology --- Psychological aspects --- Woolf, Virginia Stephen, --- Stephen, Virginia, --- Ulf, Virzhinii︠a︡, --- Ṿolf, Ṿirg'inyah, --- Vulf, Virdzhinii︠a︡, --- Вулф, Вирджиния, --- וולף, וירג׳יניה --- וולף, וירג׳יניה, --- Stephen, Adeline Virginia, --- Woolf, Virginia

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Thematology --- English literature --- anno 1900-1999

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Sociology of literature --- English literature --- anno 1800-1999 --- Modernism (Literature) --- Popular literature --- Literature and anthropology --- Popular culture --- History and criticism. --- History. --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Great Britain --- 19th century --- History --- Popular culture - Great Britain - History.

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The Cambridge Companion to Autobiography offers a historical overview of the genre from the foundational works of Augustine, Montaigne, and Rousseau through the great autobiographies of the Romantic, Victorian, and modern eras. Seventeen essays from distinguished scholars and critics explore the diverse forms, audiences, styles, and motives of life writings traditionally classified under the rubric of autobiography. Chapters are arranged in chronological order and are grouped to reflect changing views of the psychological status, representative character, and moral authority of the autobiographical text. The volume closes with a group portrait of late-modernist and contemporary autobiographies that, by blurring the dividing line between fiction and non-fiction, expand our understanding of the genre. Accessibly written and comprehensive in scope, the volume will appeal especially to students and teachers of non-fiction narrative, creative writing, and literature more broadly.

Non-fiction --- Autobiography. --- Autobiografie. --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- European --- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.