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Contradictory Woolf

Derek Ryan and Stella Bolaki

Abstract

This book presents thirty-seven chapters which present the text of papers selected from approximately 200 papers given at the 21st Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, hosted by the University of Glasgow. The theme of contradiction in Woolf's writing, including her use of the word “but,” is widely explored in relation to auto/biography, art, philosophy, cognitive science, sexuality, animality, class, mathematics, translation, annotation, poetry, and war.

Keywords: war, Virginia Woolf, contradiction, but, autobiography, biography, cognitive science, sexuality, animality, class

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2012 Print ISBN-13: 9780983533955
Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: January 2016 DOI:10.5949/liverpool/9780983533955.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Derek Ryan, editor
University of Kent

Stella Bolaki, editor
University of Kent

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Frontispiece

Preface

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Virginia Woolf Standard Abbreviations

“But…I had said ‘but’ too often.” Why “but”?

Judith Allen

Woolf, Context, and Contradiction

Michael H. Whitworth

“Did I not banish the soul?” Thinking Otherwise, Woolf-wise

Patricia Waugh

“The Play’s The Thing BUT We Are The Thing Itself.” Prologue, Performance and Painting. A multimedia Exploration of Woolf’s Work in the Late 1930s and Her Vision of Prehistory.

Suzanne Bellamy

Report to the Memoir Club

Marina Warner

“But somebody you wouldn’t forget in a hurry”

Lois J. Gilmore

Contradictions in Autobiography

Maggie Humm

“But something betwixt and between”

Amber K. Regis

“Can ‘I’ Become ‘We’?”

Oren Goldschmidt

Woolf’s Un/Folding(s)

Laci Mattison

Woolf’s Contradictory Thinking

Angeliki Spiropoulou

The Feeling of Knowing in Mrs Dalloway

Sowon S. Park

“When the lights of health go down”

Stella Bolaki

Kinetic Tropes, Comedic Turns

Janet Winston

But Woolf was a Sophisticated Observer of Fashion…

Claire Nicholson

Bi-sexing the Unmentionable Mary Hamiltons in A Room of One’s Own

Vara S. Neverow

Lacanian Orlando

Katharine Swarbrick

The Bispecies Environment, Coevolution, and Flush

Jeanne Dubino

From Spaniel Club to AniMalous Society

Derek Ryan

Ecology, Identity and Eschatology

Sam Wiseman

“Please Help Me!” Virginia Woolf, Viola Tree, and the Hogarth Press1

Diane F. Gillespie

“Am I a Snob?” Well, sort of

Madelyn Detloff

“Come buy, come buy”

Kathryn Simpson

Virginia Woolf and December 1910

Makiko Minow-Pinkney

Virginia Woolf on Mathematics

Jocelyn Rodal

“A Brief Note in the Margin”

Amanda Golden

“Observe, Observe Perpetually,” Montaigne, Virginia Woolf and the “Patron au Dedans.”

Gill Lowe

Who’s Behind the Curtain? Virginia Woolf, “Nurse Lugton’s Golden Thimble,” and the Anxiety of Authorship

Kristin Czarnecki

Virginia Woolf and the Russian Oxymoron

Claire Davison

“A Dialogue…about this Beauty and Truth”

Rebecca DeWald

“As I spin along the roads I remodel my life”

Leslie Kathleen Hankins

Travesty in Woolf and Proust

John Coyle

Woolf, Yeats, and the Making of “Spilt Milk”

Wayne K. Chapman

Figures of Contradiction

Sara Sullam

Do Not Feed the birds

Ian Blyth

Approaches to War and Peace in Woolf

Karen L. Levenback

Duncan Grant

Cecil Woolf

End Matter

Notes on Contributors

Conference Program