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Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory: Sex, Animal, Life
Derek Ryan
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Paperback. Explores the materialist theories of sexuality, animality, and posthuman life. How does Virginia Woolf conceptualise the material world? In what ways has Woolf's modernism affected understandings of materiality, and what new perspectives does she offer contemporary theoretical debates? Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 319. Weight in Grams: 378.
This book explores Woolf's writing alongside Deleuzian philosophy and new materialist theories of sexuality, animality, and posthuman life. How does Virginia Woolf conceptualise the material world? In what ways has Woolf's modernism affected understandings of materiality, and what new perspectives does she offer contemporary theoretical debates? Derek Ryan demonstrates how materiality is theorised in Woolf's writings by focusing on the connections she makes between culture and nature, embodiment and environment, human and nonhuman, life and matter. Through close readings of texts including To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One's Own, The Waves, Flush, and 'Sketch of the Past', he ... Read more
This book explores Woolf's writing alongside Deleuzian philosophy and new materialist theories of sexuality, animality, and posthuman life. How does Virginia Woolf conceptualise the material world? In what ways has Woolf's modernism affected understandings of materiality, and what new perspectives does she offer contemporary theoretical debates? Derek Ryan demonstrates how materiality is theorised in Woolf's writings by focusing on the connections she makes between culture and nature, embodiment and environment, human and nonhuman, life and matter. Through close readings of texts including To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One's Own, The Waves, Flush, and 'Sketch of the Past', he ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474402347
SKU
V9781474402347
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About Derek Ryan
Derek Ryan is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Exeter.
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