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

[Jones, Barbara]

Seems to me VW wrote the prose that Shani says she wants to imagine.

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 5:22 AM Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> 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.”
>
> *TLS, 10/1/20 p. 40
>
>
> 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!)
>
> Stuart
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