[Vwoolf] Vwoolf Digest, Vol 58, Issue 33 - playlist for a classic novel
Francesca Baker
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Fri Mar 31 13:03:26 EDT 2017
Interesting...
“I think of all my books as music before I write them,” Virginia Woolf once said. It shows—her work isn’t necessarily what I’d call musical, but it is rhythmic, both formally and thematically, indicative of an internal melody. Woolf was an avid music fan, of course, and I won’t venture to guess what she was actually listening to—in her head in her room—when she was writing her masterpiece To the Lighthouse. But below, I have given my impressions of the novel in musical, or rather playlist, form—a sort of reverse-engineering of Woolf’s own process.
The thing I always say about To the Lighthouse to those who haven’t read it is that it’s the closest a novel has ever come to feeling like direct experience for me. That is, it feels like a reflection of consciousness as opposed to something external to it, which also seems to me to be a quality of (good) music. E.M. Forster called To the Lighthouse “a novel in sonata form”—as it is split up into three sections—movements, as it were—so shall this playlist be.
http://lithub.com/playlist-for-a-classic-novel-to-the-lighthouse/
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Playlist for a Classic Novel: To the Lighthouse<http://lithub.com/playlist-for-a-classic-novel-to-the-lighthouse/>
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“I think of all my books as music before I write them,” Virginia Woolf once said. It shows—her work isn’t necessarily what I’d call musical, but it is rhythmic, both formall…
Francesca Baker
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1. Re: Virginia Woolf--statistically (Anne Fernald)
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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 12:28:41 -0400
From: Anne Fernald <fernald at fordham.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Virginia Woolf--statistically
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WTF. Resting bitch face.
I can't even.
Ugh.
Onward, Woolfians!
So glad that I have a fresh bar of Green & Black organic chocolate to
soothe away the hilarious idiocy of that and stave off the cravings from
the chocolate creams thread.
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Jean Mills <millsj7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Seriously. WTF. (resting bitch face)
>
> Jean
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> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Mark Hussey <mhussey at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> ?The most masculine classic novel written by a woman?
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>> As the kids say, wtf?
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>> *From:* Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces+mhussey=verizon.net at lists.osu.edu] *On
>> Behalf Of *Karen Levenback
>> *Sent:* Friday, March 31, 2017 7:14 AM
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>> *Subject:* [Vwoolf] Virginia Woolf--statistically
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>> NPR review of Benjamin Bratt's *Nabokov's Favorite Word is Mauve: That
>> the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing *notes
>> that Virginia Woolf is the writer who uses the fewest cliches.
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>> In her nine novels, she also uses 116 -ly adverbs per 10,000 words.
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>> The most masculine classic novel written by a woman is her *Orlando.*
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>> *The Waves* is the #1 book with the most 2-word anaphora: 5.5%.
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>> Bratt includes much more as well (Jim Haule take note!).
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>> Cheers--
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>> Karen Levenback
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>> *.*
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> Jean Mills
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> The Department of English
> John Jay College/CUNY
> 524 West 59th Street, Room 7.63.12
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> AUTHOR OF:
>
> "'With every nerve in my body I stand for peace': Jane Ellen Harrison and
> the Heresy of War" in *Reconsidering Peace and Patriotism during the
> First World War *(Palgrave/Macmillan, 2017)
> http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319513003
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.palgrave.com_de_book_9783319513003&d=DwMFaQ&c=aqMfXOEvEJQh2iQMCb7Wy8l0sPnURkcqADc2guUW8IM&r=k1OoytuRmrU4MiIwbI-7ElFohPGR5Vr0JxDyMjG9DsI&m=VCVngzfXX9S8YypT_1jUZN5SjbwhtCU-G7xcNTtcC8A&s=ZFSrcgirpMW4IEX-08qUQnoHRdilNpxtRzDYQ00mYcc&e=>
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> *Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist
> Classicism *(The Ohio State University Press, 2014)
> https://ohiostatepress.org/Books/Book%20Pages/Mills%20Virginia.html
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From: Diana Swanson <dswanson at niu.edu>
To: Anne Fernald <fernald at fordham.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Virginia Woolf--statistically
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Is this a sample of the "digital humanities"? I hope not.
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WTF. Resting bitch face.
I can't even.
Ugh.
Onward, Woolfians!
So glad that I have a fresh bar of Green & Black organic chocolate to soothe away the hilarious idiocy of that and stave off the cravings from the chocolate creams thread.
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Jean Mills <millsj7 at gmail.com<mailto:millsj7 at gmail.com>> wrote:
Seriously. WTF. (resting bitch face)
Jean
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Mark Hussey <mhussey at verizon.net<mailto:mhussey at verizon.net>> wrote:
?The most masculine classic novel written by a woman?
As the kids say, wtf?
From: Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces+mhussey<mailto:vwoolf-bounces%2Bmhussey>=verizon.net at lists.osu.edu<mailto:verizon.net at lists.osu.edu>] On Behalf Of Karen Levenback
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2017 7:14 AM
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Subject: [Vwoolf] Virginia Woolf--statistically
NPR review of Benjamin Bratt's Nabokov's Favorite Word is Mauve: That the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing notes that Virginia Woolf is the writer who uses the fewest cliches.
In her nine novels, she also uses 116 -ly adverbs per 10,000 words.
The most masculine classic novel written by a woman is her Orlando.
The Waves is the #1 book with the most 2-word anaphora: 5.5%.
Bratt includes much more as well (Jim Haule take note!).
Cheers--
Karen Levenback
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The Department of English
John Jay College/CUNY
524 West 59th Street, Room 7.63.12
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AUTHOR OF:
"'With every nerve in my body I stand for peace': Jane Ellen Harrison and the Heresy of War" in Reconsidering Peace and Patriotism during the First World War (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2017)
http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319513003<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.palgrave.com_de_book_9783319513003&d=DwMFaQ&c=aqMfXOEvEJQh2iQMCb7Wy8l0sPnURkcqADc2guUW8IM&r=k1OoytuRmrU4MiIwbI-7ElFohPGR5Vr0JxDyMjG9DsI&m=VCVngzfXX9S8YypT_1jUZN5SjbwhtCU-G7xcNTtcC8A&s=ZFSrcgirpMW4IEX-08qUQnoHRdilNpxtRzDYQ00mYcc&e=>
Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist Classicism (The Ohio State University Press, 2014)
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