[Vwoolf] 28 March 1941

Byrne, Anne anne.byrne at nuigalway.ie
Fri Mar 28 09:03:08 EDT 2014


Dear Woolfians

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'.

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.

Kind regards
Anne


Dr Anne Byrne,  Senior Lecturer
School of  Political Science and Sociology
College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies
National University of Ireland
Galway
IRELAND
http://www.nuigalway.ie/soc/
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Letter writing is '...the humane art which owes its origin to the love of friends'. Virginia Woolf, The Humane Art, 41.




On 11 Nov 2013, at 22:14, "Erica Delsandro" <ericadelsandro at gmail.com<mailto:ericadelsandro at gmail.com>> wrote:

Greetings, Woolfians!

I hope this message finds everyone well.  Below is the call for papers for the Spring 2015 issue of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany, 1930s Woolf.  (I have attached the CFP as well for your convenience.)

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.

Please, pass this along to any interested parties; also, feel free to email me with any questions.  I look forward to reading your submissions!

All best -- Erica Delsandro

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Virginia Woolf Miscellany CFP
“1930s Woolf”

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 (The Waves) and most commercially successful (The Years) novels.  This issue of VWM 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?

Send submissions of no more than 2500 words to:
Erica Gene Delsandro, ericadelsandro at gmail.com<mailto:ericadelsandro at gmail.com>

Deadline for submission:
August 1, 2014
<Miscellany(CFP).docx>
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