The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature

Jeanne Dubino; Paulina Pająk; Catherine W. Hollis; Celiese Lypka; Vara Neverow

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2021

The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature

Jeanne Dubino , Paulina Pająk , Catherine W. Hollis , Celiese Lypka and Vara Neverow

In the series Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474448482

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About this book

A collection of original essays exploring the diverse impact of Virginia Woolf’s writing on contemporary global literature and culture

Explores Woolf’s impact on primarily contemporary writers around the world whose work needs to be further recognised on the global stage
Truly global in its approach: contributors represent or write about all regions of the world, including West and East Europe, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, North and South America, East and South Asia, and the Pacific Islands
Features new literary trends, especially biofiction and other genres, including film, drama, and other fiction
Addresses global issues like translation and transnational reception studies

To capture the many Woolfian currents circulating around the world, the twenty-three chapters in this companion examine the global responses Woolf’s work has inspired and explore her worldwide influence. Authors address ways Woolf is received by writers, publishers, reading audiences and academics in countries around the world; how she is translated into multiple languages; and the transformation of her life into global contemporary biofiction.

This collection is dialogic and comparative, incorporating both transnational and local tendencies insofar as they epitomize Woolf’s global reception and legacy. It contests the ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ binary, offering new models for Woolf global studies and promoting cross-cultural understandings.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Abbreviations of Virginia Woolf’s Works Publicly Available Download PDF	xiv
Introduction Paulina Pająk, Jeanne Dubino and Catherine W. Hollis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Planetary and Global Receptions of Woolf
1. ‘What a curse these translators are!’ Woolf’s Early German Reception Daniel Göske and Christian Weiß Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2. The Translation and Reception of Virginia Woolf in Romania (1926–89) Adriana Varga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
3. The Reception of Virginia Woolf and Modernism in Early Twentieth-Century Australia Suzanne Bellamy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
4. Dialogues between South America and Europe: Victoria Ocampo Channels Virginia Woolf Cristina Carluccio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
5. From Julia Kristeva to Paulo Mendes Campos: Impossible Conversations with Virginia Woolf Davi Pinho Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
6. Three Guineas and the Cassandra Project – Christa Wolf’s Reading of Virginia Woolf during the Cold War Henrike Krause Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
7. Virginia Woolf’s Literary Heritage in Russian Translations and Interpretations Maria Bent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
8. Virginia Woolf’s Feminist Writing in Estonian Translation Culture Raili Marling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
9. Virginia Woolf in Arabic: A Feminist Paratextual Reading of Translation Strategies Hala Kamal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
10. Solid and Living: The Italian Woolf Renaissance Elisa Bolchi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
11. Tracing A Room of One’s Own in sub-Saharan Africa, 1929–2019 Jeanne Dubino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Part II: Woolf’s Legacies in Literature
12. Virginia Woolf’s Enduring Presence in Uruguay Lindsey Cordery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
13. Virginia Woolf’s Reception and Impact on Brazilian Women’s Literature Maria A. de Oliveira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
14. English and Mexican Dogs: Spectres of Traumatic Pasts in Virginia Woolf’s Flush and María Luisa Puga’s Las razones del lago Lourdes Parra-Lazcano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
15. A New Perspective on Mary Carmichael: Yuriko Miyamoto’s Novels and A Room of One’s Own Hogara Matsumoto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282
16. Rooms of Their Own: A Cross-Cultural Voyage between Virginia Woolf and the Contemporary Chinese Woman Writer Chen Ran Zhongfeng Huang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
17. In Search of Spaces of Their Own: Woolf, Feminism and Women’s Poetry from China Justyna Jaguścik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	314
18. Trans-Dialogues: Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Feminist Legacy to Contemporary Polish Literature Paulina Pająk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	332
19. Clarissa Dalloway’s Global Itinerary: From London to Paris and Sydney Monica Latham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	354
20. Virginia Woolf and French Writers: Contemporaneity, Idolisation, Iconisation Anne-Laure Rigeade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
21. The Dream Work of a Nation: From Virginia Woolf to Elizabeth Bowen to Mary Lavin Patricia Laurence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
22. Great Poets Do Not Die: Maggie Gee’s Virginia Woolf in Manhattan (2014) as Metaphor for Contemporary Biofiction Bethany Layne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
23. The Woolf Girl: A Mother–Daughter Story with Virginia Woolf and Lidia Yuknavitch Catherine W Hollis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	412
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	428

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 464
Illustrations
- Other: 3 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474448482