The Common Reader First Series
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Virginia Woolf's Common Reader
Author: Dr Katerina Koutsantoni
language: en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date: 2013-04-28
In the first comprehensive study of Virginia Woolf's Common Reader, Katerina Koutsantoni draws on theorists from the fields of sociology, sociolinguistics, philosophy, and literary criticism to investigate the thematic pattern underpinning these books with respect to the persona of the 'common reader'. Though these two volumes are the only ones that Woolf compiled herself, they have seldom been considered as a whole. As a result, what they reveal about Woolf's position with regard to the processes of writing, reading, and critical analysis has not been fully examined. Koutsantoni challenges the critical commonplace that equates Woolf's strategy of self-effacement and personal removal from her works as a necessary compromise that allowed her to achieve authorial recognition in a male-dominated context. Rather, Koutsantoni argues that an investigation of impersonality in Woolf's essays reveals the potential of the genre to function both as a vehicle for the subjective and dialogic expression of the author and reader and as a venue for exploring topics with which the ordinary reader can relate. As she explores and challenges the meaning of impersonality in Woolf's Common Reader, Koutsantoni shows how the related issues of subjectivity, authority, reader-response, intersubjectivity, and dialogism offer useful perspectives from which to examine Woolf's work.
The Common Reader, First Series
Author: Virginia Woolf
language: en
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Release Date: 2021-11-02
"There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure." 'The Common Reader' is a collection of essays that, as the title suggests, is for the common reader -- the one who reads for pleasure's sake. Shedding academic language and the high brow style, Virginia Woolf explores authors like Jane Austen and George Eliot and tackles topics such as Modern Fiction and the Common Readers themselves. Witty, brazen and intelligent, Woolf makes the reader feel included as were they participants in these very analyzes. Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer who, despite growing up in a progressive household, was not allowed an education. When she and her sister moved in with their brothers in a rough London neighborhood, they joined the infamous The Bloomsbury Group, which debated philosophy, art and politics. Woolf's most famous novels include 'Mrs Dalloway' (1925) and 'To the Lighthouse' (1927).
The Common Reader - First Series (1925)
This carefully crafted eBook: "The Common Reader0́4First Series (1925)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.The Common Reader' is a collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, published in two series, the first in 1925 and the second in 1932. The title indicates Woolf's intention that her essays be read by the educated but non-scholarly "common reader," who examines books for personal enjoyment. Woolf outlines her literary philosophy in the introductory essay to the first series, "The Common Reader," and in the concluding essay to the second series, "How Should One Read a Book?" The first series includes essays on Geoffrey Chaucer, Michel de Montaigne, Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Joseph Conrad, as well as discussions of the Greek language and the modern essay. The second series features essays on John Donne, Daniel Defoe, Dorothy Osborne, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Thomas Hardy, among others.Table of Contents:Chapter 10́4The Common ReaderChapter 20́4The Pastons and ChaucerChapter 30́4On Not Knowing GreekChapter 40́4The Elizabethan Lumber RoomChapter 50́4Notes on an Elizabethan PlayChapter 60́4MontaigneChapter 70́4The Duchess of NewcastleChapter 80́4Rambling Round EvelynChapter 90́4DefoeChapter 100́4AddisonChapter 110́4The Lives of the ObscureChapter 120́4Jane AustenChapter 130́4Modern FictionChapter 140́4"Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights"Chapter 150́4George EliotChapter 160́4The Russian Point of ViewChapter 170́4OutlinesChapter 180́4The Patron and the CrocusChapter 190́4The Modern EssayChapter 200́4Joseph ConradChapter 210́4How it Strikes a Contemporary