Virginia Woolf and Photography
The paper begins with Woolf’s responses to photographs, her own photos and those of family and friends, and then surveys critiques in Woolf studies about photography. The main focus of the paper is on analogies: how scenes and descriptions in her writing often match her domestic photographs and thos...
| Published in: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2017-10-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ebc/3957 |
| Summary: | The paper begins with Woolf’s responses to photographs, her own photos and those of family and friends, and then surveys critiques in Woolf studies about photography. The main focus of the paper is on analogies: how scenes and descriptions in her writing often match her domestic photographs and those of her family, on adoptions by Woolf of the languages and methods of photography, and on the ways in which writing and photography inform each other. This includes Woolf’s use of photographic tropes, for example, in Flush; but, more significantly, how her knowledge of photography encouraged Woolf to create new representations of political arguments, for example, in Three Guineas. |
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| ISSN: | 1168-4917 2271-5444 |