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... Virginia Woolf's novels is this very question : when one thinks in the abstract of a typical Virginia Woolf character one seems to see a tiny figure on tiptoe eagerly grasping a butterfly - net alert to snare the significant , the ...
... Virginia Woolf's novels is this very question : when one thinks in the abstract of a typical Virginia Woolf character one seems to see a tiny figure on tiptoe eagerly grasping a butterfly - net alert to snare the significant , the ...
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... Virginia Woolf as though she were essentially a poet who happened to use the medium of prose . But she is at her weakest when she is most con- sciously the poet , and the interludes in The Waves and the celebration of time in To the ...
... Virginia Woolf as though she were essentially a poet who happened to use the medium of prose . But she is at her weakest when she is most con- sciously the poet , and the interludes in The Waves and the celebration of time in To the ...
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... Virginia Woolf is a novelist of very narrow limits . It is absurd to say she could not create character : her characters are thoroughly convincing . But the range of those she creates is very small . They belong not only to a certain ...
... Virginia Woolf is a novelist of very narrow limits . It is absurd to say she could not create character : her characters are thoroughly convincing . But the range of those she creates is very small . They belong not only to a certain ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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