Beyond genre- or rather inside and against genre- Woolf’s essays, short stories, novels, and diary-writing can be read as a different nuance of the same challenge: a ‘try’ overdrawing the boundaries of narrative conventions and testing the figures (the narrator, characters, voices) that structure the discourse within the text. Rereading Virginia Woolf and embarking on a revised account of Woolf’s experience as a writer means facing a bewildering amount of critical commentary that copes with key issues related to “life” as a whole, and to the towering problem of “writing life”. “The nerves of writing” mentioned in the title mainly refer to what is acknowledged as the matrix-subject of Woolf's writing. “What is life”; what goes on in its name; which are its boundaries; how to cope with the “flickers” and signs we put into this ‘portmanteau’: these are facets of Woolf’s central obsession. And such obsession works as a major narrative magnet: it nourishes/feeds? a palimpsest of fiction and meta-fiction where self-scrutiny (steeped in autobiography) relates to the recognizance of the self (as an “I”, as a woman, as an Author), to the tunnelling within in search of one’s many selves, as well as to a psycho-collective history retrieved along pre-individual and trans-historical traces—as Deleuze’s concept of a “deterritorialised subject” has taught us to discern.

(2011). Virginia Woolf. In the nerves of writing [book - libro]. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10446/26150

Virginia Woolf. In the nerves of writing

BONADEI, Rossana
2011-01-01

Abstract

Beyond genre- or rather inside and against genre- Woolf’s essays, short stories, novels, and diary-writing can be read as a different nuance of the same challenge: a ‘try’ overdrawing the boundaries of narrative conventions and testing the figures (the narrator, characters, voices) that structure the discourse within the text. Rereading Virginia Woolf and embarking on a revised account of Woolf’s experience as a writer means facing a bewildering amount of critical commentary that copes with key issues related to “life” as a whole, and to the towering problem of “writing life”. “The nerves of writing” mentioned in the title mainly refer to what is acknowledged as the matrix-subject of Woolf's writing. “What is life”; what goes on in its name; which are its boundaries; how to cope with the “flickers” and signs we put into this ‘portmanteau’: these are facets of Woolf’s central obsession. And such obsession works as a major narrative magnet: it nourishes/feeds? a palimpsest of fiction and meta-fiction where self-scrutiny (steeped in autobiography) relates to the recognizance of the self (as an “I”, as a woman, as an Author), to the tunnelling within in search of one’s many selves, as well as to a psycho-collective history retrieved along pre-individual and trans-historical traces—as Deleuze’s concept of a “deterritorialised subject” has taught us to discern.
book - libro
2011
Bonadei, Rossana
File allegato/i alla scheda:
File Dimensione del file Formato  
Frontespizio Woolf.pdf

accesso aperto

Versione: cover/index - copertina/indice
Licenza: Licenza default Aisberg
Dimensione del file 5.55 MB
Formato Adobe PDF
5.55 MB Adobe PDF Visualizza/Apri
Pubblicazioni consigliate

Aisberg ©2008 Servizi bibliotecari, Università degli studi di Bergamo | Terms of use/Condizioni di utilizzo

Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento: https://hdl.handle.net/10446/26150
Citazioni
  • Scopus ND
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.isi??? ND
social impact