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Virginia Woolf Icon
Brenda R. Silver
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 1999
主題
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
Literary Criticism / Feminist
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Women Authors
Self-Help / Anxieties & Phobias
Social Science / General
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Social Science / Popular Culture
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Women's Studies
ISBN
0226757463
9780226757469
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NR4CF9x1o0gC&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBook
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註釋
This is a book about "Virginia Woolf": the face that sells more postcards than any other at Britain's National Portrait Gallery, the name that Edward Albee's play linked with fear, the cultural icon so rich in meanings that it has been used to market everything from the
New York Review of Books
to Bass Ale. Brenda Silver analyzes Virginia Woolf's surprising visibility in both high and popular culture, showing how her image and authority have been claimed or challenged in debates about art, politics, anger, sexuality, gender, class, the canon, feminism, race, and fashion.
From Virginia Woolf's 1937 appearance on the cover of
Time
magazine to her current roles in theater, film, and television, Silver traces the often contradictory representations and the responses they provoke, highlighting the recurring motifs that associate Virginia Woolf with fear. By looking more closely at who is afraid and the contexts in which she is perceived to be frightening, Silver illustrates how Virginia Woolf has become the site of conflicts about cultural boundaries and legitimacy that continue to rage today.
