[Vwoolf] "English prose of this quality is hard to rival"*
Christine Froula
cfroula at northwestern.edu
Mon Mar 23 12:20:05 EDT 2020
ancillary thought: in academe these days, as for a long time, the middle
way butters no parsnips
On 3/23/2020 8:50 AM, Jones, Barbara via Vwoolf wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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