[Vwoolf] "English prose of this quality is hard to rival"*

[Jean Mills]

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 :)

And sending big love to all the PhD candidates out there. Keep 'em coming!
We need you.

Jean

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 8:59 AM Sarah M. Hall via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Keep it clean, folks. We can't cope with coronavirus AND Brexit.
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> On Monday, 23 March 2020, 12:33:31 GMT, mhussey at verizon.net <
> mhussey at verizon.net> wrote:
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> Is being anti-“Continental” philosophy part of Brexit?:). I didn’t find
> anything particularly difficult to follow in the quote…
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> *From:* Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu> *On Behalf Of *Sarah M.
> Hall via Vwoolf
> *Sent:* Monday, March 23, 2020 8:19 AM
> *To:* vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [Vwoolf] "English prose of this quality is hard to rival"*
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> 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.
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> I often think the same about Woolf texts, wading through treacle silently
> wishing and hoping: 'Please, another quotation'.
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> On Monday, 23 March 2020, 10:22:11 GMT, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <
> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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> 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.”
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> *TLS, 10/1/20 p. 40
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> 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!)
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> Stuart
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-- 
Jean Mills
Associate Professor
The Department of English
John Jay College/CUNY
524 West 59th Street, Room 7.63.12
New York, NY 10019

AUTHOR OF:

"Obscene, Grotesque, and Carnivalesque: Hope Mirrlees's *Lud-in-the-Mist *as
Menippean Satire" in *The Female Fantastic: Gendering the Supernatural in
the 1890s and 1920s. *Routledge, Fall, 2018.

https://www.routledge.com/The-Female-Fantastic-Gendering-the-Supernatural-in-the-1890s-and-1920s/McCormick-Mitchell-Soares/p/book/9780815364023

"Placing Virginia Woolf "
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/exhibition/virginia-woolf
(February, 2018)

"'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

*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

Associate Editor, *Feminist Modernist Studies*

212.237.8706
JEMILLS at JJAY.CUNY.EDU
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