Virginia Woolf’s Portraits of Russian Writers
Creating the Literary Other
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2019
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Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-2753-9 (ISBN)
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-2753-9 (ISBN)
Virginia Woolf always stayed ahead of her time. Championing gender equality when women could not vote; publishing authors from Pakistan, France, Austria and other parts of the world, while nationalism in Britain was on the rise; and befriending outcasts and social pariahs. As such, what could have possibly interested her in the works of nineteenth-century Russian writers, austere and, at times, misogynistic thinkers preoccupied with peasants, priests, and paroxysms of the soul? This study explains the chronological and cultural paradox of how classic Russian fiction became crucial to Woolf's vision of British modernism. We follow Woolf as she begins to learn Russian, invents a character for a story by Dostoevsky, ponders over Sophia Tolstoy's suicide note, and proclaims Chekhov a truly 'modern' writer. The book also examines British modernists' fascination with Russian art, looking at parallels between Roger Fry's articles on Russian Post-Impressionists and Woolf's essays on Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev.
Dr Darya Protopopova, DPhil, PhD, is a writer and researcher on Russian and British modernism. Her research interests include Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, translations from the Russian, and bilingualism. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Changing English, the Bodleian Library Record, Virginia Woolf Miscellany, and the Times Literary Supplement. She recently published a story about her great-great-grandfather Mikhail Mikhailovich Chekhov (a cousin of Anton Chekhov) in the prestigious Russian magazine La Pensee Russe. The first instalment of her novel 1982 appeared in the Russian online literary journal Koltso A. She is a member of the Union of Moscow Writers.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.04.2019 |
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| Verlagsort | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 212 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5275-2753-0 / 1527527530 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5275-2753-9 / 9781527527539 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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