The competition for the Julia Briggs Memorial Prize 2011 is open to members and non-members (except for the Executive Council and Editorial Committee of the society, the judges and their families.
Entries should be sent to Ruth Webb, 15 Southcote Rd., London SE25 4RG, to arrive by 10 January 2011.
The competition rules and entry form are provided below. Continue Reading »
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The Waves: First Tide is written and directed by Brenley Charkow. The Factory Theatre is located at 125 Bathurst St.
Advance tickets for both matinee and evening performances can be purchased June 15 through the Toronto Fringe Festival online or by calling 416-966- 1062.
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In Greatness Engendered: George Eliot & Virginia Woolf, Alison Booth argues that Woolf believed women have access to a “secret form of heroism” related to epic life. Clarissa is, Booth continues, a: “living poem (who) influences moments of deeper communion because (she) is not a great man but many women to many people. (She) may even extend (her) spirit to the suffering common man, as Woolf speculates in linking Mrs. Dalloway and Septimus Smith (163).
Suzette Henke argues that Clarissa “embodies the feminine capacity to create, preserve, and sanctify life” (128). Molly Hoff also compares Clarissa to Helen of Troy, noting that Sally Seton at one point commands Peter to take Clarissa away (196).
Septimus also has some connection to heroes of the epics. The broken soldier simulates Achilles in the Iliad when he has no taste for food. In book nine, Achilles also denies himself sustenance to mourn his friends who have died in battle. In her book Virginia Woolf & The Androgynous Vision, Nancy Topping Bazin also argues that Clarissa and Septimus are linked by Aristotle’s unities of time, place, and action by outside influences like the motor car, airplane, and striking of Big Ben. Anne Fernald recently pointed out that Septimus’ doctor, arriving at the party late, is the one who breaks the news that Septimus has died.
According to Bazin, Woolf is modifying a technique she got from Joseph Conrad of “representing in different characters the selves of which a total self might be composed” (27). Woolf discusses this further in Mr. Conrad: A Conversation.
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The LA Times blog Jacket Copy celebrated that fact with a piece about the book that quotes Woolf scholar, Anne Fernald, who coordinated last year’s Woolf conference, Woolf and the City, held at Fordham University in New York City.
Fernham is on research leave from her teaching position at Fordham and is working on the Cambridge University Press edition of Mrs. Dalloway. She spends some of her time in the Wertheim Study at the New York Public Library and contributed to Approaches to Teaching Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway.
Meanwhile, readers still enjoy Mrs. Dalloway, and dramatists continue to take new approaches to the novel. Red Bull Theater will present a new play workshop of Septimus and Clarissa, by Ellen McLaughlin, based on Woolf’s novel, on June 25 and 26 at the Theater at St. Clement’s, 423 West 46th St. in New York City.
Read more posts about Mrs. Dalloway.
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That question came up on the VWoolf Listserv a while back, and now a panel has been added to the 2010 Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Woolf and the Natural World to provide an opportunity for discussion.
“’Queer Bloomsbury,’ Queer Studies, and Woolf’s Place in Both” will take place as a breakfast discussion Saturday, June 5, 7:30-9 a.m. in the Banquet Hall at Georgetown College. It will be moderated by Madelyn Detloff and Brenda Helt.
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