[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:
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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.”
>     *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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