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VIRGINIA WOOLF
FEMINISM, CREATIVITY, AND THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| By: |
John Maze |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£74.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0313302839 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780313302831 |
| Publisher: |
ABC-CLIO |
| Pub. date: |
30 November, 1997 |
| Series: |
Contributions to the Study of World Literature No. 84 |
| Pages: |
232 |
| Description: |
Presenting a penetrating psychoanalytic reading of Virginia Woolf's novels, this work explains how Woolf's feminism and pacifism, based on her conscious insight into an authoritarian society, were given passionate conviction by her childhood and adult relationships with her family and men. |
| Synopsis: |
John R. Maze presents a penetrating psychoanalytic reading of Virginia Woolf's novels from first to last. Underlying their elegant, imaginative, mysterious texture there is revealed a network of sibling rivalry, incestuous attraction and exploitation, sexual repulsion, bizarre fantasies, anger, and fatal despair. Woolf's feminism and pacificism, based on her conscious insight into an authoritarian society, were given passionate conviction by her resentment and irrational guilt over her half-brothers' sexual aggression against her as a vulnerable girl. This found its place in repressed animosity toward her idealized mother, whom she blamed not only for failing to protect her, but also for trying to impose the Victorian female sexist orthodoxy. Deeper still was the childhood conviction that her mother was complicit in the fantasied genital injuries-exacerbated later, she felt, by the males in her life-which prevented her from having children, as her envied sister had. Maze's approach not only reveals the intimate processes of Woolf's imagination, but yields a deeper and richer reading of her texts.An important study for all students and scholars of British 20th-century literature, feminist literary criticism, and critical theory in general. |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Greenwood Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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