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Virginia Woolf

Session 7 - Sunday 1:00-2:30pm
Henry Hall 227
Presiding Officer: 
Martha E. Klironomos
  1. ‘Derrida’s “Mourning” and Virginia Woolf’s “Death”’. Theodore Koulouris, University of Sussex

    In this paper, I argue that Virginia Woolf’s novelistic treatment of the concept of death and her lifelong philosophical preoccupation with textual mourning betray a ‘Derridean’ approach to ‘loss’ some seventy years before the French philosopher started to talk about this topic.

  2. Woolf's Crowds and the Extension of Identity. Judith Paltin, University of California, Santa Barbara

    I examine how Woolf conceptualized the crowd as prior to and constitutive of the individual, why her figurations of the crowd in texts such as Mrs. Dalloway rethink subjectivity, and whether they offer space to marginalized collectivities within imagined communities.

  3. Misperceiving Virginia Woolf. James Harker, University of California, Berkeley

    Critical vantages on Woolf tend to emphasize either the "inner" life or her political and social interests (the "outer" world). Looking to pervasive moments of misperception in Woolf's fiction, this paper asks why the "inner" and the "outer" worlds are such a poor fit.

  4. Writing the "Luminous Halo": Haecceities and Indeterminacies in To the Lighthouse. Michael Podolny, University of California, Riverside

    This paper offers a reading of To the Lighthouse as an instantiation of Virginia Woolf’s larger project--to write life as a “luminous halo.” I argue, via the work of Deleuze and Guattari, that this sort of writing ultimately abandons the difficulty of binaries through the use of polyphony and polyvision.

Session Type: 
Special Session
Session Status: 
Closed