The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature
Jeanne Dubino, Paulina Pajak, Catherine W. Hollis, Celiese Lypka, and Vara Neverow
Abstract
This book considers the global responses Woolf’s work has inspired and her worldwide impact. The 23 chapters address the ways Woolf is received by writers, publishers, academics, reading audiences, and students in countries around the world; how she is translated into multiple languages; and how her life is transformed into global contemporary biofiction. The 24 authors hail from regions around the world: West and East Europe, the Middle East/North Africa, North and South America, East Asia and the Pacific Islands. They write about Woolf’s reception in Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, ... More
This book considers the global responses Woolf’s work has inspired and her worldwide impact. The 23 chapters address the ways Woolf is received by writers, publishers, academics, reading audiences, and students in countries around the world; how she is translated into multiple languages; and how her life is transformed into global contemporary biofiction. The 24 authors hail from regions around the world: West and East Europe, the Middle East/North Africa, North and South America, East Asia and the Pacific Islands. They write about Woolf’s reception in Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Estonia, Russia, Egypt, Kenya, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, the United States, China, Japan and Australia. The Edinburgh Companion is dialogic and comparative, incorporating both transnational and local tendencies insofar as they epitomise Woolf’s global reception and legacy. It contests the ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ binary, offering new models for Woolf global studies and promoting cross-cultural understandings.
Keywords:
Virginia Woolf,
World/global/transnational literatures,
Literary modernism,
Contemporary biofiction,
Transcultural exchanges,
Translation studies,
Reception studies,
Feminism and sexualities
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781474448475 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: September 2021 |
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474448475.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Jeanne Dubino, editor
Appalachian State University
Paulina Pajak, editor
University of Wrocław
Catherine W. Hollis, editor
University of California Berkeley
Celiese Lypka, editor
University of Manitoba
Vara Neverow, editor
Southern Connecticut State University
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