Essays on the Self

By:

Virginia Woolf (**)

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Hardback

Series:

Classic Collection

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Woolf's fine character studies of several authors, among them Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who 'seems not a man, but a swarm, a cloud, a buzz of words, darting this way and that, clustering, quivering and hanging suspended'. He is, Woolf adds,so complex, so eccentric, that we 'become dazed in the labyrinth of what we call Coleridge'. He was incapable of adopting requisite social modes, of suppressing his obsessive urge to talk, of pandering to the expectations of others. Woolf tries to capture a 'clear picture' of Coleridge but this metaphor is skewed and what she really reveals is a voice - mad and beautiful - never to be heard again

Author Biography:

Virginia Woolf(1882-1941) was an English novelist, critic, and publisher whobecame a key figure of literary modernism. She published many novels as well asnonfiction and criticism. In 1941, she committed suicide by drowning herself in theRiver Ouse, near her Sussex home. Joanna Kavennais a British novelist and travel writer. Her works includeThe FieldGuide to RealityThe Ice Museum,Inglorious, andThe Birth of Love. Her short storiesand essays have appeared inThe New Yorker, theLondon Review of Books,Arc,TheGuardian, andThe New York Times. She has received the Alistair Horne VisitingFellowship and the Orange Prize for New Writing, and in 2013 was named as oneofGranta's Best of Young British Novelists. She lives in Oxford.

Release date NZ

January 1st, 2014

Author

Virginia Woolf (**)

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Introduction by Joanna Kavenna

Pages

184

Series

Classic Collection

Dimensions

120x190x15

ISBN-13

9781907903922

Product ID

22911766

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