[Vwoolf] Woolf in Conversation

Tue Sep 20 18:33:00 EDT 2022

Hello colleagues,

I don't think this pairing has appeared yet, and if it has I apologize for
missing it: *Mrs. Dalloway* in conversation with Toni Morrison's *Sula*,
which is also about a shell-shocked WWI vet.

warm regards,

Rishona

On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 2:33 PM Anne Fernald via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Kristina, So many options. Here are a few short texts that have
> worked well for me recently: Alice Walker, “In Search of Our Mothers’
> Gardens”; Stevie Smith, “Thoughts on the Person from Porlock”; Jorge Luis
> Borges, “The Library of Babel”
> Dear Kristina,
>
> So many options. Here are a few short texts that have worked well for me
> recently:
>
> Alice Walker, “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens”;
>
> Stevie Smith, “Thoughts on the Person from Porlock”;
>
> Jorge Luis Borges, “The Library of Babel”
>
> Ama Ata Aidoo, from Our Sister Killjoy
>
> Audre Lorde, “Poetry is not a Luxury”
> Michel de Certeau, “Walking in the City”
> Toni Morrison, *Sula*
> Sara Ahmed, "Feminist Killjoys" in *The Promise of Happiness* (accessible
> theory)
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> I didn't love Asali Solomon's *Days of Afrekete*
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374721909/thedaysofafrekete__;!!KGKeukY!ydv-D9v_OOVpFmYmTD0mzkGRCybEXBOydD1XfWdG3gnkvoESYn_FFMzcLWgaQBUaukrMKsxiF9By84jWQjV9VYc$>,
> but it is a reworking of *Mrs. Dalloway *and it's short with some
> powerful meditations on race and privilege--but it's very posh
> Philadelphia.
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> *The Oxford Handbook to Virginia Woolf
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> lots of other ideas in chapters on Woolf's afterlives.
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> 34. Modern Woolfian Fiction, *Roxana Robinson*
> 35. Magic Realism and Experimental Fiction, *Laura Mª Lojo-Rodríguez*
> 36. Narrative Futures of the Feminist Novel, *Tonya Krause*
> 37. Creative Non-fiction and Poetry, *Stacey D'Erasmo*
> 38. Virginia Woolf, Filmmaker, *Jacqueline Shin*
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> Might be a good moment to go back to Stephen Frears's film Sammy and
> Rosie Get Laid (1987)?
>
> Enjoy the class!
>
> Anne
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> Anne E. Fernald
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> *The Norton Critical Edition of *Mrs. Dalloway
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> On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 3:17 PM Pat Laurence via Vwoolf <
> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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>> Dear Kristina. . . Some suggestions for Conversation courses--both Woolf
>> and the Victorians. Victorians/Moderns: juxtaposition of Anand-Kipling,
>> Bronte-Rhys, Disraeli-Engels, McEwan-Woolf. It's a neat structure for
>> bringing authors of different
>> Dear Kristina...
>> Some suggestions for Conversation courses--both Woolf and the Victorians.
>> Victorians/Moderns: juxtaposition of Anand-Kipling, Bronte-Rhys,
>> Disraeli-Engels, McEwan-Woolf. It's a neat structure for bringing authors
>> of different cultures, countries, politics, history and periods into relief.
>>
>>
>> Virginia Woolf and International Women Writers
>>
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>> This course will focus on the novels of Virginia Woolf in juxtaposition
>> with short readings from international modernist  women writers: Ding Ling
>> (China); Anita Desai and Sara Suleri (India/Pakistan);  Christa Wolfe
>> (Germany); Amelia Kahane-Carmon (Israel); Gertrude Stein and Djuna
>> Barnes(America/France), Natalie Sarraute (France) among others.  Woolf’s
>> polemics, *A Room of One’s* *Own* and *Three Guineas,* will frame
>> geopolitical and modernist issues such as women’s participation in
>> education, work, fiction and government as well as decisions about war. *To
>> the Lighthouse* will illuminate the domestic, “Angel in the House; *Mrs.
>> Dalloway* will introduce issues of gender that will take flight in the
>> fantasy of *Orlando*; the great narrative experiment of *The Waves* will
>> join with other modernist experiments. The way in which Woolf “travels” to
>> other countries will be framed by the theories of de Saussure, M.M.
>> Bakhtin, Michel Foucault, Susan Stanford Friedman and James Clifford.
>>
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>>
>> *English 793: Victorian Conversations*
>>
>> Syllabus
>>
>>      This course presents British Victorian texts in conversation with
>> modern or contemporary works, sometimes from different cultures.
>> Nineteenth-century preoccupations with virtue, duty, nation, colonialism,
>> evolution, religion, race, class and gender are brought into relief in the
>> twentieth century. One work answers another.
>>
>> Jan. 26th: Introduction
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>> Feb. 2nd:  “Florence Nightingale” in *The Eminent Victorians*
>>
>>                 Visit to the Darwin exhibit, Museum of Natural History
>> (date to be arranged)
>>
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>> Feb. 9th:   Kipling, *Kim*, pp. 49-144 (ch.1-5)
>>
>>                  Edward Said: Introduction
>>
>>
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>> Feb. 16th: Kipling, *Kim*, pp. 145-338
>>
>>                 Benedict Anderson, “Census, Map, Museum”
>>
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>> Feb.23th:  Anand, *The Untouchable*, pp.9-92
>>
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>> March 2nd: Anand, *The Untouchable*, pp.93-157
>>
>>
>>
>> March 9nd:  Charlotte Bronte, *Jane Eyre*
>>
>>                     Short essay due (topics to be discussed)
>>
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>> March 16th: Bronte, *Jane Eyre*
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>> March 23:  Jean Rhys, *Wide Sargasso Sea*, pp. 17-118
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>> March 30:  Rhys, *Wide Sargasso Sea*, pp.119-190
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>> April 6th:   Selected essays: Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf
>>
>>
>>
>> April 12th-23rd: Spring Break
>>
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>> April 27th: Disraeli, *Sybil*
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>>                   Engels, *The Condition of the Working Class in England*
>> (excerpt)
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>> May 4th: Disraeli, *Sybil*
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>> May 11th: Ian McEwan, *Saturday*
>>
>>                  Longer essay due (topics developed from and related to
>> short oral reports)
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>> May 17th: McEwan, *Saturday*
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>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 2:27 PM Andrea Zemgulys via Vwoolf <
>> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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>>> Dear Kristina, I haven’t read it yet, but a former student just let me
>>> know of a book she is publishing that is “found Woolf poetry. ” I gather
>>> that she composed new poems from favorite Woolf passages. Nazifa Islam,
>>> Forlorn Light: ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍
>>> Dear Kristina,
>>>
>>> I haven’t read it yet, but a former student just let me know of a book
>>> she is publishing that is “found Woolf poetry.” I gather that she composed
>>> new poems from favorite Woolf passages.
>>>
>>> *Nazifa Islam, Forlorn Light: “...published with a small UK publisher so
>>> there hasn't been a lot of advertising for the collection, but *here
>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.shearsman.com/store/Nazifa-Islam-Forlorn-Light-p362124177__;!!KGKeukY!39ZkxFsoltFWSS8qLos1wbFO8I9K5RUJqMfPptldUdJRaTmbtqrmtrmL6VJ78Zrmejq-NeAXd1f-vImR8OhJBJc$> is
>>> the book's webpage on the Shearsman Books site and here's
>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nazifaislam.com/forlorn-light__;!!KGKeukY!39ZkxFsoltFWSS8qLos1wbFO8I9K5RUJqMfPptldUdJRaTmbtqrmtrmL6VJ78Zrmejq-NeAXd1f-vImRTQCbvB0$> the
>>> book's webpage on my own website, which is a bit more detailed."
>>>
>>> Maybe something from this book will work for you…or you could have your
>>> students compose their own “found” poems — that might work very well for an
>>> assignment!
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Andrea Zemgulys
>>> Michigan, USA
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 16, 2022, at 10:06 PM, Kristina Groover via Vwoolf <
>>> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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>>> Dear Woolfians,
>>>
>>> I am developing an undergraduate course titled "Woolf in Conversation,"
>>> and I would love to solicit your ideas.   I am particularly interested in
>>> having students read Woolf's work alongside contemporary women writers and
>>> writers of color.  Please share your ideas about writers and texts that
>>> you've found especially engaging when read in conversation with Woolf,
>>> especially with an undergraduate class in mind.  Many thanks!
>>>
>>> Kristina Groover
>>> --
>>> Kristina K. Groover
>>> Professor of English
>>> Appalachian State University
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>>>
>>> "Your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else.
>>> If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else."
>>> -- Toni Morrison
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Rishona Zimring
Professor of English
Lewis & Clark College
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