The sixth and last volume of The Essays of Virginia Woolf appeared in 2009, enabling readers to explore this prodigious body of work with ease. Meticulously edited and annotated by Andrew McNeillie ...and Stuart N. Clarke to chart each essay’s chronological position in Woolf’s oeuvre as well as its publication history, contexts, versions, and allusions, the complete Essays establishes Woolf’s claim to a prominent place among English essayists and invites the vigorous, many-faceted scholarly and ...
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"The Waves in Quarantine" Froula, Christine
Virginia Woolf Miscellany,
09/2021
98
Journal Article, Book Review
Supported by a shockproof orange case filled with state-of-the-art video and sound equipment that traveled around the country from one performer to another, the actors practiced their craft not for a ...live theatre audience but for a camera's eye. Both medium and method make this fascinating "fictional documentary" a unique entry in the ever-expanding array of Woolf-inspired theatrical and cinematic adaptations.3 Indeed, "The Waves in Quarantine" is less an adaptation than a creative homage, at once personal and communal, to Woolf's great work of art and its power to solace not only modernity's existential nausea but the shared loss, pain, and loneliness of our Covidblighted moment ninety years on. "The Waves in Quarantine" has a distant origin in a music-theatre adaptation by Lisa Peterson and the late composer and lyricist David Bucknam (whose idea it was), first performed at the New York Theatre Workshop in 1990.4 A new version, with Bucknam's music revised by Adam Gwom, was produced at the Vassar & New York Film and Stage's Powerhouse Theatre in July 2018.5 With cameras standing in for the audience, "The Waves in Quarantine" splashes ad hoc performances excerpted from the musical's script and score over the broad canvas of the quarantined actors' everyday lives to create a new design: a scripted video collage of artistic, reality-theatre, and documentary elements laid into six short thematic "movements": "Memory," "Those We Love," "The Female Gaze," "Absence," "The Sun Cycle," and "Reunion. Rather, we glimpse The Waves in discontinuous moments-in lyrical passages read and sung by the actors; in visual images of seascapes, cityscapes, scudding clouds, changing skies; in biographic pictures of St. Ives and Talland House; as a book held in an actor's hand, or mind; as embodied dance, gesture, emotion-in other words, in performed moments, passages, fragments cut out and threaded through the actors' everyday worlds by Peterson's creative team.
Almost seventy years after her death, it is difficult to decide how many short stories Virginia Woolf wrote. She published eighteen during her lifetime, and Leonard Woolf included five more in A ...Haunted House and Other Stories (1944). In May 1973 Stella McNichol assembled seven as Mrs Dalloway’s Party, including “Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street” (published in the Dial in 1923), “The Introduction” (first published in the Sunday Times Magazine in March 1973), and “Ancestors” (first publication). In...
Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde traces the dynamic emergence of Woolf’s art and thought against Bloomsbury’s public thinking about Europe’s future in a period marked by two world wars ...and rising threats of totalitarianism. Educated informally in her father’s library and in Bloomsbury’s London extension of Cambridge, Virginia Woolf came of age in the prewar decades, when progressive political and social movements gave hope that Europe "might really be on the brink of becoming civilized," as Leonard Woolf put it. For pacifist Bloomsbury, heir to Europe’s unfinished Enlightenment project of human rights, democratic self-governance, and world peace—and, in E. M. Forster’s words, "the only genuine movement in English civilization"— the 1914 "civil war" exposed barbarities within Europe: belligerent nationalisms, rapacious racialized economic imperialism, oppressive class and sex/gender systems, a tragic and unnecessary war that mobilized sixty-five million and left thirty-seven million casualties. An avant-garde in the twentieth-century struggle against the violence within European civilization, Bloomsbury and Woolf contributed richly to interwar debates on Europe’s future at a moment when democracy’s triumph over fascism and communism was by no means assured. Woolf honed her public voice in dialogue with contemporaries in and beyond Bloomsbury— John Maynard Keynes and Roger Fry to Sigmund Freud (published by the Woolfs'Hogarth Press), Bertrand Russell, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Katherine Mansfield, and many others—and her works embody and illuminate the convergence of aesthetics and politics in post-Enlightenment thought. An ambitious history of her writings in relation to important currents in British intellectual life in the first half of the twentieth century, this book explores Virginia Woolf’s narrative journey from her first novel, The Voyage Out, through her last, Between the Acts.
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