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Virginia Woolf : The Patterns of Ordinary Experience.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (231 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317001591
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Virginia WoolfDDC classification:
  • 828.91209
LOC classification:
  • PR6045.O72 .S56 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction - Virginia Woolf: The Patterns of Ordinary Experience -- Part 1 Quotidian Things -- 1 Factualism and the Search for Ordinary Things -- 2 Blue and Green: Sensations of Colour -- Part 2 Rethinking Ordinary Experience -- 3 Pain, Common Illness and Ordinary Life -- 4 Motoring from Beauty to the Sublime -- 5 Moments of Being: Little Daily Miracles -- Part 3 The Ordinary, Being, Ethics -- 6 Tracing Patterns -- 7 Woolf and the Ethics of the Ordinary -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Placing Virginia Woolf's views in the context of the philosophical and lay accounts of everyday experience that dominated the cultural thought of her time, Sim draws on the major novels and on a number of shorter and less-discussed texts such as short stories, essays, memoirs, and diaries. Woolf, Sim contends, explores the potential of everyday experience as a site of personal meaning, social understanding, and ethical value.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction - Virginia Woolf: The Patterns of Ordinary Experience -- Part 1 Quotidian Things -- 1 Factualism and the Search for Ordinary Things -- 2 Blue and Green: Sensations of Colour -- Part 2 Rethinking Ordinary Experience -- 3 Pain, Common Illness and Ordinary Life -- 4 Motoring from Beauty to the Sublime -- 5 Moments of Being: Little Daily Miracles -- Part 3 The Ordinary, Being, Ethics -- 6 Tracing Patterns -- 7 Woolf and the Ethics of the Ordinary -- Bibliography -- Index.

Placing Virginia Woolf's views in the context of the philosophical and lay accounts of everyday experience that dominated the cultural thought of her time, Sim draws on the major novels and on a number of shorter and less-discussed texts such as short stories, essays, memoirs, and diaries. Woolf, Sim contends, explores the potential of everyday experience as a site of personal meaning, social understanding, and ethical value.

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