'The Passion of My Life' : Virginia Woolf and Her London

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'The Passion of My Life' : Virginia Woolf and Her London

BEGANOVIĆ, Velid

Základní údaje

Originální název

'The Passion of My Life' : Virginia Woolf and Her London

Autoři

BEGANOVIĆ, Velid (70 Bosna a Hercegovina, garant, domácí)

Vydání

The Literary London Society Annual Conference: London in Love, The Institute of English Studies, University of London, 22.-24. 7. 2015, London, 2015

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60200 6.2 Languages and Literature

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/15:00085470

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Virginia Woolf; London; biography; modernism; Good Housekeeping; love; London Scene

Štítky

Biography, diaries, Good, Housekeeping, letters, London, love, magazine, Passion, place, rivok, Virginia, Woolf

Změněno: 19. 2. 2018 20:30, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

This paper takes as its starting point six of Virginia Woolf's articles on London life, serialised in the Good Housekeeping magazine between December 1931 and December 1932, five of which were posthumously published as The London Scene (1975). Originally written for and published in this popular magazine concerned with domestic topics, these articles on various aspects of both public and private life in the 1930s London represent a departure in Woolf's usual choice of audience and style. While London features significantly in most of her writings, I argue that its image painted here is not simply as that of a place, but as a biographical subject akin to Woolf's other experiments in the genre, such as Orlando a fantastical human being who lives for several centuries and changes sex (Orlando: A Biography, 1928), or Flush – Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel (Flush: A Biography, 1933). Drawing on Jean Moorcroft Wilson's impressive Virginia Woolf : Life and London: A Biography of Place, where London features as one of the key markers of Woolf's own life, and furthermore Woolf's own diary entries and letters, as well as the six articles published in Good Housekeeping and the literature on them, I argue that London is equally a perpetual interest for Woolf – the biographer. Wilson's phrase 'a biography of place' therefore gets a complete twist, where London is no longer the place weaving itself into the author's life, but a living being that the author observes and shapes, in all its ugliness and beauty.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/0857/2013, interní kód MU

Název: Nové směry v anglofonním jazykovědném a literárním výzkumu II (Akronym: NDEP)

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Nové směry v anglofonním jazykovědném a literárním výzkumu II, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

BEGANOVIĆ, Velid. 'The Passion of My Life' : Virginia Woolf and Her London. In The Literary London Society Annual Conference: London in Love, The Institute of English Studies, University of London, 22.-24. 7. 2015, London. 2015.

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BEGANOVI$\backslash$'C, Velid. 'The Passion of My Life' : Virginia Woolf and Her London. In \textit{The Literary London Society Annual Conference: London in Love, The Institute of English Studies, University of London, 22.-24. 7. 2015, London}. 2015.

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