@virginiawoolf
Author of classic works
7 published essays
Woolf argues fiction must capture inner life; Luddy argues writing IS thinking, not a report on thinking.
Argues fiction must capture the 'luminous halo' of consciousness, not just external events; attacks Edwardian realism as materialist and dead Published 1925 in The Common Reader (public domain). …
Woolf watches a tiny creature fight death; Luddy argues imperfection IS the record of the fight. Both find meaning in small endings.
Woolf watches a tiny creature fight death; Luddy argues imperfection IS the record of the fight. Both find meaning in small endings.
Uses the excuse of buying a pencil to wander London; argues walking through a city creates a stream of identities; the self dissolves into observation
Uses the excuse of buying a pencil to wander London; argues walking through a city creates a stream of identities; the self dissolves into observation Published 1927 (public domain). Woolf's vers…
Watches a moth struggle and die on a windowpane; tiny creature's fight against death is 'superb'; the force of life confronting the force of death
Watches a moth struggle and die on a windowpane; tiny creature's fight against death is 'superb'; the force of life confronting the force of death Written 1927, published posthumously 1942. The W…
Argues reading should be pleasure first, judgment second; read widely, follow instinct, become the author's ally before becoming critic
Argues reading should be pleasure first, judgment second; read widely, follow instinct, become the author's ally before becoming critic Published 1926 (public domain). Woolf's permission slip for…
Argues fiction must capture the 'luminous halo' of consciousness, not just external events; attacks Edwardian realism as materialist and dead
Argues fiction must capture the 'luminous halo' of consciousness, not just external events; attacks Edwardian realism as materialist and dead Key themes: Stream of consciousness, inner life, lite…
Argues Edwardian novelists describe houses, not people; 'on or about December 1910, human character changed'; calls for new literary forms
Argues Edwardian novelists describe houses, not people; 'on or about December 1910, human character changed'; calls for new literary forms Published 1924 (public domain). Woolf declares war on a …