The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Europe

Brief Description: Comprehensive coverage of Woolf's reception across Europe with contributions from leading international critics and translators. Biographical Note: Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Nicola Luckhurst has written on Proust (Science and Structure in Proust's 'A la recherche du temps perdu' (OUP, 2000)), Montaigne, Gisele Freund, and Virginia Woolf. Her new translation of Freud's Studies in Hysteria was published in 2004. Table of Contents: Series Editor's Preface, Elinor ShafferAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsPreface: Virginia Woolf's Crossings, Mary Ann CawsTimeline: European Reception of Virginia Woolf, Paul BarnabyAbbreviationsIntroduction, Nicola LuckhurstFrench1. Virginia Woolf Among Writers and Critics: The French Intellectual Scene, Pierre-Eric Villeneuve2. The French Reception of Virginia Woolf: An 'Etat Present' of 'Etudes Woolfiennes', Carole Rodier3. Translating Virginia Woolf into French, Francoise Pellan4. A Virginia Woolf, with a French Twist, Mary Ann CawsGerman5. The German Reception and Criticism of Virginia Woolf: A Survey of Phases and Trends in the Twentieth Century, Ansgar and Vera Nunning6. Installing Modernism: The Reception of Virginia Woolf in the German Democratic Republic, Wolfgang WichtPolish7. From Silence to a Polyphony of Voices: Virginia Woolf's Reception in Poland, Urszula Terentowicz-FotygaSwedish8. 'Literature is no one's private ground': The Critical and Political Reception of Virginia Woolf in Sweden, Catherine Sandbach-DahlstromDanish9. Waves of Influence: The Danish Reception of Virginia Woolf, Ida KlitgardGreek10. 'The Country of the Moon' and the Woman of 'Interior Monologue': Virginia Woolf in Greece, Katerina K. Kitsi-MitakouItalian11. The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Italy, Sergio PerosaSpanish12. 'A gaping mouth, but no words': Virginia Woolf Enters the Land of Butterflies, Laura Lojo Rodriguez13. The Emerging Voice: A Review of Spanish Scholarship on Virginia Woolf, Alberto Lazaro 14. Virginia Woolf and the Search for Symbolic Mothers in Modern Spanish Fiction: The Case of Tres Mujeres, Maria JosE Gamez FuentesGalician15. 'A fastness of their own': The Galician Reception of Virginia Woolf, Manuela PalaciosCatalan16. Modernism, Nationalism and Feminism: Representations of Virginia Woolf in Catalonia, Jacqueline A. HurtleyPortuguese17. The Portuguese Reception of Virginia Woolf, Graca AbranchesHistory of Publishing18. The European Dimensions of the Hogarth Press, Laura Marcus BibliographyIndex"Review Quotes: "Mary Ann Caws and Nicola Luckhurst bring together a broad selection of essays exploring the impact of Woolf's work in European traditions ranging from German to Catalan to Polish. The work includes extensive bibliographical material that moves beyond the scopes of the articles, useful information on translations on Woolf's work, and a timeline outlining the reception of Woolf's work in Europe. This collection gives a sense of the breadth and depth of the influence of Woolf's work across Europe and provides invaluable access to very recent fictional works coming out of Greece and Spain, for example, many not yet available in translation. We learn as much about the specific domestic concerns of the cultures reading Woolf as we do about Woolf." -Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Spring 2004Review Quotes: "This important new scholarship is teaching us to re-read Woolf as a European writer, and in a European context...maps fields of knowledge almost unknown to English-language scholars: decades of scholarly work... Woolf is now a staple of modern literature in the English-speaking world, both for students and for the 'common reader' Woolf herself so valued. Her important in other languages and cultures has only recently been recognised, and these books are valuable introductions to the topic." Trudi Tate, Quadrant--Sanford Lakoff "Quadrant "Review Quotes: "Mary Ann Caws and Nicola Luckhurst have done a great job in editing and selecting the articles incorporated in this volume, which, in general terms, takes on an ample scope of Woolfian studies in Europe. In this context, the book will undoubtedly be useful for anyone interested in the apparently well-known, but still elusive figure of Virginia Woolf...this book is an unquestionable achievement. It is a must for anyone interested in Woolf studies, for it contains a wealth of material and documentation that was impossible to find before and that would have required exhausting work for any scholar to bring together." Antonio Ballesteros, Atlantis Journal, September 2004--Sanford LakoffReview Quotes: "A pioneering work in comparative reception studies, this book is a well-documented survey of the reception, translation, and evaluation of Virginia Woolf's writings in Europe... As a first exploration of the European reception of Woolf in comparative perspective, it contains the seeds for many new areas of investigation." Liedeke Plate, The Comparatist, 2003--Sanford LakoffReview Quotes: "This rich volume enlarges our understanding of how a writer can become caught up in movements far beyond her own awareness. It reminds us too of how the rhythms pose, the twists of a sentence, can carry sensibility through from language to language. Woolf has been appropriated repudiated, inhabited, by writers and critics across Europe...this volume [has] a range of essays that give us real insight into how a writer is made anew by different readers." Gillian Beers, Comparative Critical Studies--Sanford LakoffMarc Notes: Originally published: London: Athlone, 2001.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; This text argues that Woolf's reception across Europe has been remarkably diverse, as analyst of consciousness, as stylist innovator of modernism, as feminist and socialist, and as a current model for a wide range of other writers across Europe. Review Citations:

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Contributor Bio:  Caws, Mary Ann Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature in the Graduate School of the City University of New York and Co-director of its Henri Peyre French Institute. She is the author, editor, or translator of more than forty books in the fields of poetry and the avant-garde. Contributor Bio:  Luckhurst, Nicola Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French at the Graduate School of the City University of New York.