The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1928Hogarth Press, 1986 - 653 pagina's Written while Virginia Woolf worked on Orlando, To the Lighthouse and A Room of One's Own, and including the complete text of The Common Reader, the essays in this volume explore subjects ranging from the world's greatest books to obscure English lives, confirming Woolf's faith in the value of writing and in the common reader she addresses. |
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... Fiction ' whose perspectivist theories , in- cidentally , emerge in several of the essays here - notably ' Robinson Crusoe ' - and were to an extent inspired by E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel ( 1927 ) , discussed by Woolf in ' Is ...
... Fiction ' whose perspectivist theories , in- cidentally , emerge in several of the essays here - notably ' Robinson Crusoe ' - and were to an extent inspired by E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel ( 1927 ) , discussed by Woolf in ' Is ...
Pagina 478
... fiction too far , so that he disregards the truth , or can only introduce it with incongruity , he loses both worlds ; he has neither the freedom of fiction nor the substance of fact . Boswell's astonishing power over us is based ...
... fiction too far , so that he disregards the truth , or can only introduce it with incongruity , he loses both worlds ; he has neither the freedom of fiction nor the substance of fact . Boswell's astonishing power over us is based ...
Pagina 602
... fiction ; or what its relation is to life ; or to what effects it can lend itself . We can only trust our instincts . If in- stinct leads one reader to call Scott a story - teller , another to call him a master of romance ; if one ...
... fiction ; or what its relation is to life ; or to what effects it can lend itself . We can only trust our instincts . If in- stinct leads one reader to call Scott a story - teller , another to call him a master of romance ; if one ...
Inhoudsopgave
This for Remembrance | 7 |
Further Reminiscences | 14 |
The Pastons and Chaucer | 20 |
Copyright | |
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