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<div>Dear Woolfians</div>
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<div>In observance of the day, I reread 'The Death of the Moth' (1943) this morning -a short and beautiful essay on life 'a pure bead' and the force of death. I was aware of Virginia Woolf sitting at her desk, looking out of the window of her room, at the
life beyond. while her eye is drawn to the moth flying vigorously back and forth. She writes 'As often as he crossed the pane, I could fancy that a thread of vital life became visible. He was little or nothing but life' (10). The struggle of the moth against
death moved her. 'As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder'. </div>
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<div>In a letter to Vita, she had written that her own death would be one experience she could never describe, nonetheless here I sense she understood it completely.</div>
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<div>Kind regards</div>
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<div>Dr Anne Byrne, Senior Lecturer</div>
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<div>National University of Ireland</div>
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Woolf, The Humane Art, 41. </span></div>
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On 11 Nov 2013, at 22:14, "Erica Delsandro" <<a href="mailto:ericadelsandro@gmail.com">ericadelsandro@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Times New Roman">I hope this message finds everyone well. Below is the call for papers for the Spring 2015 issue of the <i>Virginia Woolf Miscellany, </i>1930s Woolf. (I
have attached the CFP as well for your convenience.) </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Times New Roman">A note on submissions: We think, read, and work intertextually. With that in mind, I encourage potential contributors to engage with their previous publications
if they are, in fact, related to their submission. Footnote or reference in text any previous life a paper may have had; that will only enrich our conversation, not detract from it. We are all involved in the ongoing and evolving conversation about Woolf;
let's celebrate that intertextual evolution.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Times New Roman">Please, pass this along to any interested parties; also, feel free to email me with any questions. I look forward to reading your submissions!</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Times New Roman">All best -- Erica Delsandro</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><i><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Virginia Woolf Miscellany</span></i><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"> CFP</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">The literature of the 1930s, commonly characterized as anti-modernist because of the prevalence of documentary realism, political purpose, and
autobiographically-inflected fiction, bears witness to Woolf’s most daring (<i>The Waves</i>) and most commercially successful (<i>The Years</i>) novels. This issue of <i>VWM </i>seeks contributions that explore Woolf’s relationship to the canonical literature
of the 1930s, such as but not limited to: Auden’s poetry, Isherwood’s Berlin fiction, Auden’s and Isherwood’s plays, Spender’s commentary, and Waugh’s comedic novels. In addition, this issue encourages responses to the following questions: How does Woolf
scholarship, if at all, engage with the critical study of 1930s literature? How does Woolf’s modernism disrupt or complement the critical understanding of 1930s literature? What can Woolf’s late fiction and essays reveal about the 1930s and its literature
that the common scholarly narrative conceals or overlooks? </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Send submissions of no more than 2500 words to:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Deadline for submission:</span></p>
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