[Vwoolf] A blast from the past from Google Alerts

[Stuart N. Clarke]

Surely this man can’t really find Lee’s biography difficult.  He must lead a sheltered life.  He could try practising to understand ‘difficult’, say, with this:

The narrative, from this moment when the ship-object has been ostensibly set adrift from meaning, endeavours to trace the “infinitely mysterious” nature of a perspective that has as yet not come to attain any stable point of view. Rachel Vinrace now allows for perspectivization to enter into a radical mode; a “spatial mapping” as Jameson has termed it, but which is here concerned with the ‘vastness’ of the possibility of being. Yet, Rachel’s ability to leave or avoid her inherited weltanschauungcan, as we shall see, only lead to momentary solipsistic touches of the ceiling of the infinite. The narrative, from this moment when the ship-object has been ostensibly set adrift from meaning, endeavours to trace the “infinitely mysterious” nature of a perspective that has as yet not come to attain any stable point of view. Rachel Vinrace now allows for perspectivization to enter into a radical mode; a “spatial mapping” as Jameson has termed it, but which is here concerned with the ‘vastness’ of the possibility of being. Yet, Rachel’s ability to leave or avoid her inherited weltanschauungcan, as we shall see, only lead to momentary solipsistic touches of the ceiling of the infinite. The narrative, from this moment when the ship-object has been ostensibly set adrift from meaning, endeavours to trace the “infinitely mysterious” nature of a perspective that has as yet not come to attain any stable point of view. Rachel Vinrace now allows for perspectivization to enter into a radical mode; a “spatial mapping” as Jameson has termed it, but which is here concerned with the 

‘vastness’ of the possibility of being. Yet, Rachel’s ability to leave or avoid her inherited weltanschauung can, as we shall see, only lead to momentary solipsistic touches of the ceiling of the infinite. 


The narrative, from this moment when the ship-object has been ostensibly set adrift from meaning, endeavours to trace the “infinitely mysterious” nature of a perspective that has as yet not come to attain any stable point of view. Rachel Vinrace now allows for perspectivization to enter into a radical mode; a “spatial mapping” as Jameson has termed it, but which is here concerned with the ‘vastness’ of the possibility of being. Yet, Rachel’s ability to leave or avoid her inherited weltanschauungcan, as we shall see, only lead to momentary solipsistic touches of the ceiling of the infinite. And then Lee might seem crystal clear by comparison.

Stuart

From: Neverow, Vara S. via Vwoolf 
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 5:20 PM
To: Virginia Woolf 
Subject: [Vwoolf] A blast from the past from Google Alerts

Google Alerts, which I have set up for notifications on Woolf and Bloomsbury, has just directed me to a review by Michael D. Langan on Hermione Lee's 1996 biography of Woolf (the review also references James King's and Panthea Reid's biographies). The review itself is dated November 13, 2018. Weird, but possibly of interest.



http://www.nbc-2.com/story/39471956/review-latest-best-woolf-bio-a-difficult-but-rewarding-read

     Review: Latest, best Woolf bio a difficult but rewarding read
      www.nbc-2.com
      The result is that the author has chosen a commodious approach, still bounded by years -- one cannot avoid them -- and has worked broad groupings of important topics into a pattern of explicating ... 

Best,



Vara



Vara Neverow
Department of English
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
203-392-6717
neverowv1 at southernct.edu


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