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The Interrupted Moment
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The Interrupted Moment
A View of Virginia Woolf's Novels
Lucio P. Ruotolo
Throughout Virginia Woolf's life and fiction, interruptions arouse inventive impulses, and such disorienting moments constitute, in the author's view, a key aspect of Woolf's experimental intention. To remain open to the shock of unmediated experience, what Woolf calls its "anarchy and newness," is to recognize and celebrate the random diversity of modern life. Those of her characters who allow the chaotic intrusion of events or people to reshape expectations emerge as her most creative heroines. Those who voice distaste for interruption, and succumb to a protective impulse to close themselves off, invariably fall back into postures of self-supporting insularity.
In widening perception, the impact of discontinuity occasions a more communal view of art and society - a shift from "I" to "we." Woolf's recurring impulse to break derived sequences of art and politics reveals a growing critique of something more fundamental than either patriarchal hierarchy or what Leonard Woolf describes as "bourgeois Victorianism." In a manner of anarchism, she comes to question those presumptions that underlie the theory of governance itself. Central to all her thinking is the revelation of interruption, heralding change, and the growing expectation that society is on the verge of radical transformation.
The author studies each novel in turn, showing how the issues that motivated Woolf as a creative writer gradually developed in complexity - from The Voyage Out and its attempt to cultivate the art of doing nothing to Between the Acts and its vision of a egalitarian society where each new interruption emerges with a promise of renewal.
Lucio P. Routolo is Professor of English at Stanford University, and the author of Six Existential Heros: The Politics of Faith and the editor of Virginia Woolf's Freshwater: A Play.
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Title The interrupted moment: a view of Virginia Woolf's novels
Author Lucio P. Ruotolo
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1986
ISBN 0804713421, 9780804713429
Length 262 pages
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The Story of Fabian Socialism
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The Fabian Society has been one of the most famous and successful agents of social reform in our history. Founded nearly eighty years ago, its policy and organization continue to evolve. It is the more surprising that no history of this unique and influential movement has been published since 1916. Margaret Cole, whose new book fills the gap, is particularly qualified to write it. Her connection with the Fabian Society goes back many years. She was its Secretary from 1939 to 1953, at a time when her husband, G.D.H. Cole, was its Chairman and later its President.
This book, however, is not merely a history of the Society, but of 'Fabian Socialism'; it thus takes in its stride the various 'outside' movements, Guild Socialism, the Labour Research Department, the Socialist League and the New Fabian Research Bureau, most of which have never been chronicled at all. Written in a vivid style by someone who was an intimate friend of so many of the great personalities concerned -- the Webbs, Shaw, Wells, Pease, Stafford Cripps and Lord Attlee, to name only a few -- it will be found not merely very readable, but indispensable for anyone who wants to know about the genesis of modern Britain and the Welfare Society.
The illustration on the cover is reproduced from The Sketch of July, 1895. It shows, from left to right, Graham Wallas, Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb and Bernard Shaw.
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Title
The story of Fabian socialism
Author
Margaret Cole
Edition
illustrated
Publisher
Stanford University Press, 1961
ISBN
0804700915, 9780804700917
Length
366 pages
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Modernism and Mass Politics: Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Yeats
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In the first two decades of the twentieth century, a new phenomenon swept politics: the masses, Groups that had struggles as marginal parts of the political system-particularly workers and women-suddenly exploded into vast and seemingly unstoppable movements.
A whole subgenre of sociological-political treatises purporting to analyze the mass mind emerged all over Europe, particularly in England. All these texts drew heavily on the theories put forth in The Crowd, writing in 1895 by the French writer Gustave Le Bon and translated into English in 1897. Le Bon developed the idea that when a crowd forms, a whole new kind of mentality, hovering on the borderline of unconsciousness, replaces the conscious personalities of individuals. His descriptions should seem uncanny to literary critics, because they sound as if he were describing modernist literary techniques, such as the focus on images and the “stream of consciousness.” Equally important was Georges Sorel’s Reflections of Violence (1906), which sought to turn Le Bon’s theories into a methodology for producing mass movements by invoking the importance of myth to theories of the mass mind.
Examining in detail the surprising similarities between modernist literature and contemporary theories of the crowd, this work upsets many critical commonplaces concerning the character of literary modernism. Through careful reading of major works of novelists Joyce and Woolf (traditionally viewed as politically leftist) and the poets Eliot and Yeats (traditionally viewed as politically to the right), it shows that man modernist literary forms in all these authors emerged out of efforts to write in the idiom of the crowd mind. Modernism was not a rejection of mass culture, but rather an effort to produce a mass culture, perhaps for the first time-to produce a culture distinctive to the twentieth century, which Le Bon called “The Era of the Crowd.” The contest between modernist and realist literary forms was thus not a contest between literature of the masses, but rather a contest between different ways of speaking to and form the mass mind, a contest based n different conceptions of how the masses think.
Michael Tratner is Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University
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Title: By Modernism and Mass Politics
Author: Michael Tratner
Published by Stanford University Press
ISBN 0804725160, 9780804725163
Contents
Introduction 1
mass mind , Georges Sorel , Fascism
WorkingClass 48
modernist , Lighthouse , Postimpressionist
The Voyage Out 79
Dalloway , Heart of Darkness , C. F. G. Masterman
Sexuality 97
super-ego , Crazy Jane , T. S. Eliot
Gabriele 116
Stephen Hero , D'Annunzio , Fascist
The Birth of a New Species of Man from 135
Yeats , Adam's Curse , Second Coming
The Culture of the Masses in The Waste Land 166
Wandering Rocks , hollow men , Leonard Woolf
Epilogue 241
James Joyce , W. B. Yeats , Jane Marcus
