Ravenous Identity: Eating and Eating Distress in the Life and Work of Virginia Woolf - Rilegato

Glenny, Allie

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ISBN 10: 0333765176 ISBN 13: 9780333765173

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Riassunto

Leonard Woolf has described how, when Virginia Woolf's distress was at its most acute, "for weeks almost at every meal one had to sit, often for an hour or more, trying to induce her to eat a few mouthfuls". Drawing upon Alison Glenny's personal experience of anorexia, this work is a feminist consideration of Virginia Woolf's use of self-starvation as a life tool and food as a complex artistic metaphor. Glenny attempts to understand what underlay this distress for Virginia Woolf as an individual, an understanding which she arrives at by examining the way in which food and eating are symbolically expressed and explored in both Woolf's life and her work.

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L'autore

ALLIE GLENNY lives in London. She writes from a thea-centric perspective about women's creative lives, and is also the author of prose-poetry pieces. She is a Dianic Witch, dances at every opportunity, and works as a freelance copy editor.

Contenuti

Note on Quotations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Prologue: Anorexia: A Perspective from the Other Side
My Food is Affection
Entirely my Weight Rests on his Prop
The Voyage Out: A Slave to One's Body in this World
Jacobs Room: Flyblown like Sugar Cakes
Mrs. Dalloway: And Left them Blackberrying in the Sun
To the Lighthouse: An Instinct like Artichokes for the Sun
The Waves: Some Fasting and Anguished Spirit
The Years: The Admirable Mutton
Between the Acts: Soles Filleted

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0333765176
• ISBN 13: 9780333765173
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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