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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Changing my screen name to #heideggerfan LOL!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Jean Mills <millsj7@gmail.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 23, 2020 9:28 AM<br><b>To:</b> Sarah M. Hall <smhall123@yahoo.co.uk><br><b>Cc:</b> vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu; mhussey@verizon.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] "English prose of this quality is hard to rival"*<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Me neith... as the kidz say. I agree with Mark. I had no trouble understanding the passage, although I was unsure, for a moment, of what was being implied by the "limpid clarity" remark or the dig at Derridean readers of Woolf. But, you know, I'm on lockdown now, with wayyyyyy too much time on my hands, so I may just crack open that Deconstructionist reading of Woolf. They say we have to work out from home now :) <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>And sending big love to all the PhD candidates out there. Keep 'em coming! We need you. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Jean<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 8:59 AM Sarah M. Hall via Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Keep it clean, folks. We can't cope with coronavirus AND Brexit.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="gmail-m_5626485537320422075ydpcbf2565dyahoo_quoted_5509346443"><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>On Monday, 23 March 2020, 12:33:31 GMT, <a href="mailto:mhussey@verizon.net" target="_blank">mhussey@verizon.net</a> <<a href="mailto:mhussey@verizon.net" target="_blank">mhussey@verizon.net</a>> wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div id="gmail-m_5626485537320422075ydpcbf2565dyiv8391300008"><div><div><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>Is being anti-“Continental” philosophy part of Brexit?:). I didn’t find anything particularly difficult to follow in the quote…</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div id="gmail-m_5626485537320422075ydpcbf2565dyiv8391300008yqt48906"><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor'><p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'> Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sarah M. Hall via Vwoolf<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 23, 2020 8:19 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] "English prose of this quality is hard to rival"*<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>I find this all the time in copy editing academic texts. I was recently offered a book about war in the Middle East, whose subtitle was 'A Historical Comparison of Ontological Insecurity'. It seemed odd to combine philosophical terms with something so visceral as war.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>I often think the same about Woolf texts, wading through treacle silently wishing and hoping: 'Please, another quotation'.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="gmail-m_5626485537320422075ydpcbf2565dyiv8391300008ydpa0ba4c14yahoo_quoted_5490655295"><div><div><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>On Monday, 23 March 2020, 10:22:11 GMT, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div id="gmail-m_5626485537320422075ydpcbf2565dyiv8391300008ydpa0ba4c14yiv0709354127"><div><div><div><div><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Tai Shani says she wants “to imagine an alternative history which privileges sensation, experience, and interiority, undermining hegemonic conceptions of narrative history to propose these possible visions of post-patriarchal futures. It is world-making within which patriarchal ideology is replaced within marginalized ideologies, such as intersectional and queer feminism, to propose polyphonic, non-hierarchical perspectives on history, science and nature.”</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>*TLS, 10/1/20 p. 40</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Has anyone noticed various books and articles on Woolf, which are heavy with this sort of prose, in which quotations from Woolf shine out with limpid clarity? (Has anyone noticed books – often based on the author’s PhD – where the intro. is full of Continental philosophy and language to match, while the remainder of the book is quite reader-friendly? And then there others that lure you in with a fairly welcoming intro., with perhaps just the odd reference to Virginia Woolf as a Derridean Deconstructive Writer – and then, phew!)</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Stuart</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>_______________________________________________<br>Vwoolf mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><br><a href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf" target="_blank">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>Vwoolf mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><br><a href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf" target="_blank">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Jean Mills<br>Associate Professor<br>The Department of English<br>John Jay College/CUNY<br>524 West 59th Street, Room 7.63.12<br>New York, NY 10019<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>AUTHOR OF:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>"Obscene, Grotesque, and Carnivalesque: Hope Mirrlees's <i>Lud-in-the-Mist </i>as Menippean Satire" in <i>The Female Fantastic: Gendering the Supernatural in the 1890s and 1920s. </i>Routledge, Fall, 2018.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.routledge.com/The-Female-Fantastic-Gendering-the-Supernatural-in-the-1890s-and-1920s/McCormick-Mitchell-Soares/p/book/9780815364023" target="_blank">https://www.routledge.com/The-Female-Fantastic-Gendering-the-Supernatural-in-the-1890s-and-1920s/McCormick-Mitchell-Soares/p/book/9780815364023</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>"Placing Virginia Woolf "<a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/exhibition/virginia-woolf" target="_blank">http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/exhibition/virginia-woolf</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>(February, 2018)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>"'With every nerve in my body I stand for peace': Jane Ellen Harrison and the Heresy of War" in <i>Reconsidering Peace and Patriotism during the First World War </i>(Palgrave/Macmillan, 2017)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319513003" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319513003</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist Classicism </span></i><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>(The Ohio State University Press, 2014)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://ohiostatepress.org/Books/Book%20Pages/Mills%20Virginia.html" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>https://ohiostatepress.org/Books/Book%20Pages/Mills%20Virginia.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Associate Editor, <i>Feminist Modernist Studies</i><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>212.237.8706</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><a href="mailto:JEMILLS@JJAY.CUNY.EDU" target="_blank">JEMILLS@JJAY.CUNY.EDU</a><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>