Reading Virginia Woolf Logically
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4986301 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Megan Quigley (Villanova University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 101-116 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/03335372-7974114 |
| OpenAlex | W3021032647 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
This article argues for a "resolute reading" of Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out, akin to Cora Diamond and James Conant's reading of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The resolute approach to the Tractatus contends that we should embrace Wittgenstein's assertion that the Tractatus is finally nonsense. Accordingly, the Tractatus acts as a kind of therapy, enabling us to dispense with certain types of philosophical, linguistic, and analytical claims. I argue that Woolf's The Voyage Out takes a similar approach to the nineteenth-century novel, fully investing in the conventions of the bildungsroman and the marriage plot only to ruthlessly dispense with them. Both works use a particular kind of modernist therapeutic pedagogy reliant on logic and form
Art · Assertion · Close reading · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Nonsense · Computer Science · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Samuel Beckett and Modernism · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |