Judith Woolf
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 186281 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Judith Woolf |
| PRENOMES | Judith |
| SOBRENOME | Woolf |
| ASSINATURA | WOOLF J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of York |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Transfigurations of the Commonplace
One reason why the concept of the quotidian has proved elusive to critics of literature and the visual arts is that the commonplace in art and literature so often refuses to remain untransfigured, not least because of its power to confront us with the material detritus with which we surround ourselves and which we will eventually join. It is not surprising, then, that contemporary artists share a preoccupation with finding both mortality and tran…
Massacre of the Innocents
Part II discusses how the historical source material of the author’s libretto in memory of the child victims of the Holocaust was crafted into the musical forms of recitative, lieder, lullaby and biblical lament
Intertextuality, Christianity and Death
Stevie Smith, one of the most productive of twentieth-century poets, is too often remembered simply as the coiner of the four-word punch line of a single short poem. This paper argues that her claim to be seen as a great writer depends on the major themes which—in addition to “death by water”—she shares with T.S. Eliot: Anglicanism and the modern reworking of classical literature, with a strong, and in her case sometimes autobiographical, emphasi…
Milkmaid Bears and Savage Mates
The paper considers the cultural exploitation of bears, especially white ones, from the late sixteenth century to the present, both in drama and literary fiction and in the bear pits, theatres, circuses, zoos, and natural habitats in which real biological bears have found themselves mythologized and marketed. Beginning and ending with Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson’s art project nanoq: flat out and bluesome (2006), the argument explores …
Wrecked as Homeward She did Come
Long overshadowed by the great gothic edifice of her final work, Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen’s unjustly neglected late novel, The Little Girls, engages, like Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, with the unbearable impact on its author of family trauma and her mother’s early death, and with the ambiguities of her adult sexual identity, and does so (like Woolf again), both through a network of literary references and quotations and through an explor…
New Reflections on Primo Levi
Answering Auschwitz
Henry James
Throwing Down the Screen of Literature
This article argues that a literary equivalent to Roland Barthes’ punctum might play a part (albeit a brief and inevitably in some sense fictive part) in enabling us to throw down the screen of literature which helps to shield us from the immediacy of realities ‘so utterly outside our experience’
Not the girl but the legend
Taking as its starting point the public rituals of mourning following the death of Diana Princess of Wales, the article explores some of the ways in which the popular imagination combines folktale elements with the consumption of still and moving images to mythologize real life female celebrity figures. Tracing the origins of the modern massmarketing of celebrity back to the mid-nineteenth century, the argument pays particular attention to the ro…
Henry James in the Nineties
Wrecked as Homeward She did Come
Long overshadowed by the great gothic edifice of her final work, Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen’s unjustly neglected late novel, The Little Girls, engages, like Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, with the unbearable impact on its author of family trauma and her mother’s early death, and with the ambiguities of her adult sexual identity, and does so (like Woolf again), both through a network of literary references and quotations and through an explor…
Not the girl but the legend
Taking as its starting point the public rituals of mourning following the death of Diana Princess of Wales, the article explores some of the ways in which the popular imagination combines folktale elements with the consumption of still and moving images to mythologize real life female celebrity figures. Tracing the origins of the modern massmarketing of celebrity back to the mid-nineteenth century, the argument pays particular attention to the ro…
Henry James in the Nineties
Throwing Down the Screen of Literature
This article argues that a literary equivalent to Roland Barthes’ punctum might play a part (albeit a brief and inevitably in some sense fictive part) in enabling us to throw down the screen of literature which helps to shield us from the immediacy of realities ‘so utterly outside our experience’
Not the girl but the legend
Taking as its starting point the public rituals of mourning following the death of Diana Princess of Wales, the article explores some of the ways in which the popular imagination combines folktale elements with the consumption of still and moving images to mythologize real life female celebrity figures. Tracing the origins of the modern massmarketing of celebrity back to the mid-nineteenth century, the argument pays particular attention to the ro…
Henry James
Answering Auschwitz
New Reflections on Primo Levi
Wrecked as Homeward She did Come
Long overshadowed by the great gothic edifice of her final work, Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen’s unjustly neglected late novel, The Little Girls, engages, like Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, with the unbearable impact on its author of family trauma and her mother’s early death, and with the ambiguities of her adult sexual identity, and does so (like Woolf again), both through a network of literary references and quotations and through an explor…
Intertextuality, Christianity and Death
Stevie Smith, one of the most productive of twentieth-century poets, is too often remembered simply as the coiner of the four-word punch line of a single short poem. This paper argues that her claim to be seen as a great writer depends on the major themes which—in addition to “death by water”—she shares with T.S. Eliot: Anglicanism and the modern reworking of classical literature, with a strong, and in her case sometimes autobiographical, emphasi…
Milkmaid Bears and Savage Mates
The paper considers the cultural exploitation of bears, especially white ones, from the late sixteenth century to the present, both in drama and literary fiction and in the bear pits, theatres, circuses, zoos, and natural habitats in which real biological bears have found themselves mythologized and marketed. Beginning and ending with Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson’s art project nanoq: flat out and bluesome (2006), the argument explores …
Massacre of the Innocents
Part II discusses how the historical source material of the author’s libretto in memory of the child victims of the Holocaust was crafted into the musical forms of recitative, lieder, lullaby and biblical lament
Transfigurations of the Commonplace
One reason why the concept of the quotidian has proved elusive to critics of literature and the visual arts is that the commonplace in art and literature so often refuses to remain untransfigured, not least because of its power to confront us with the material detritus with which we surround ourselves and which we will eventually join. It is not surprising, then, that contemporary artists share a preoccupation with finding both mortality and tran…
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