[Vwoolf] Vwoolf Digest, Vol 93, Issue 9
Lawrence Jones
ldqj at hotmail.com
Mon Feb 17 03:50:17 EST 2020
Hi Alice,
The Paris Review interviewed de Beauvoir in 1965 & this is an excerpt from the interview. She loved Flush! For the full interview, see https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4444/simone-de-beauvoir-the-art-of-fiction-no-35-simone-de-beauvoir
Thanks,
Lawrence
“Later, of course, I read the Brontës and the books of Virginia Woolf: Orlando, Mrs. Dalloway. I don’t care much for The Waves, but I’m very, very fond of her book on Elizabeth Barrett Browning.”
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Today's Topics:
1. Woolf in Lost Children Archive (Michael Schrimper)
2. Woolf in Lost Children Archive (Michael Schrimper)
3. Woolf/de Beauvoir (Alice E. Staveley)
4. Monks? Monk's? (Danell Jones)
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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 14:19:23 -0700
From: Michael Schrimper <Michael.Schrimper at colorado.edu>
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Subject: [Vwoolf] Woolf in Lost Children Archive
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Hi everyone,
There is a reference to VW in the 2019 novel *Lost Children Archive*, which
was longlisted for the Booker Prize and is a *New York Times Book Review* top
pick for 2019. I?m currently reading the book for my LatinX Literature
class, in which I?m a student, and I noted that, near the back of the
volume, the author has included a section entitled ?Works Cited (Notes on
Sources)?. There follows a list about the author?s ?dialogue with many
different texts,? and number four of this list states:
Some references to other literary works are spread nearly invisibly across
both narrative voices as well as the *Elegies for Lost Children* and are
meant to appear as thin ?threads? of literary allusion.
One such thread alludes to Virginia Woolf?s *Mrs. Dalloway*,
wherein the technique of shifting narrative viewpoints via an object moving
in the sky was, I believe, first invented. I repurpose the technique in
point-of-view shifts that occur when the eyes of two characters ?meet? in a
single point in the sky, by looking at the same object: airplane, eagles,
thunderclouds, or lightning. (358)
Beyond this Woolf reference, the author (Valeria Luiselli) enumerates the
?allusions? she sprinkles throughout her novel. I admit that when I first
saw this list I thought: O ye of little faith in critics who notice
unprompted! But perhaps the Works Cited builds upon a theme of ?documents?
and ?documentality??
Whatever the case, noteworthy, I think, to see Woolf?s presence in a
contemporary Mexican-American immigration and border narrative. The novel
is about two children, on a road trip with their parents from New York to
Arizona, who are trying to make sense of their parents? deteriorating
relationship, as well as the accounts they hear on the news of children
being detained at the border or getting lost in the desert while attempting
to cross it.
Michael
Michael R. Schrimper
Ph.D. Student, Department of English
University of Colorado Boulder
Traditional Territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations
https://www.colorado.edu/english/michael-schrimper
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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 14:19:23 -0700
From: Michael Schrimper <Michael.Schrimper at colorado.edu>
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Subject: [Vwoolf] Woolf in Lost Children Archive
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Hi everyone,
There is a reference to VW in the 2019 novel *Lost Children Archive*, which
was longlisted for the Booker Prize and is a *New York Times Book Review* top
pick for 2019. I?m currently reading the book for my LatinX Literature
class, in which I?m a student, and I noted that, near the back of the
volume, the author has included a section entitled ?Works Cited (Notes on
Sources)?. There follows a list about the author?s ?dialogue with many
different texts,? and number four of this list states:
Some references to other literary works are spread nearly invisibly across
both narrative voices as well as the *Elegies for Lost Children* and are
meant to appear as thin ?threads? of literary allusion.
One such thread alludes to Virginia Woolf?s *Mrs. Dalloway*,
wherein the technique of shifting narrative viewpoints via an object moving
in the sky was, I believe, first invented. I repurpose the technique in
point-of-view shifts that occur when the eyes of two characters ?meet? in a
single point in the sky, by looking at the same object: airplane, eagles,
thunderclouds, or lightning. (358)
Beyond this Woolf reference, the author (Valeria Luiselli) enumerates the
?allusions? she sprinkles throughout her novel. I admit that when I first
saw this list I thought: O ye of little faith in critics who notice
unprompted! But perhaps the Works Cited builds upon a theme of ?documents?
and ?documentality??
Whatever the case, noteworthy, I think, to see Woolf?s presence in a
contemporary Mexican-American immigration and border narrative. The novel
is about two children, on a road trip with their parents from New York to
Arizona, who are trying to make sense of their parents? deteriorating
relationship, as well as the accounts they hear on the news of children
being detained at the border or getting lost in the desert while attempting
to cross it.
Michael
Michael R. Schrimper
Ph.D. Student, Department of English
University of Colorado Boulder
Traditional Territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations
https://www.colorado.edu/english/michael-schrimper
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Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 17:57:26 +0000
From: "Alice E. Staveley" <staveley at stanford.edu>
To: "vwoolf at lists.osu.edu" <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
Subject: [Vwoolf] Woolf/de Beauvoir
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Dear Woolfians,
I was having lunch with a colleague in political science last week who's writing a book on political ethics which will include a chapter on Woolf. She asked me if I knew whether or not Simone de Beauvoir read Woolf or referenced her directly, and my first thought was ?I?ve read the answer to that on the Woolf lists?! But I didn?t want to pass off any half remembered knowledge without reaching out to the community and getting my facts right. If anyone could help me out, that?d be wonderful. Also, of course, if you know of scholarship putting the two in dialogue.
Thanks
Alice
Alice Staveley
Senior Lecturer
Department of English
Stanford University
Director | Honors English
Director | Digital Humanities Minor
http://www.modernistarchives.com
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Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 18:57:01 +0000
From: Danell Jones <danell at danelljones.com>
To: "vwoolf at lists.osu.edu" <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
Subject: [Vwoolf] Monks? Monk's?
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So where are we with the spelling of Woolf's Sussex cottage these days? Monk's? Monks'? Monks? Does it matter?
I'm leaning toward Monks because that's how its spelled on the gate of the house, not to mention Woolf's own idiosyncratic disregard of apostrophes. .
That said, I believe she was not consistent about the spelling-to no one's surprise, I'm sure.
Is there any consensus on this grave issue?
Danell
Danell Jones
Danelljones.com
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[HPBA-Logo-Vertical- small] Winner: 2019 High Plains Book Award for Nonfiction
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