The Interrupted Moment by Lucio Ruotolo
Studies each novel in turn, showing how the issues that motivated Woolf as a creative writer gradually developed in complexity - from The Voyage Out and its attempt to cultivate the art of doing nothing to Between the Acts and its vision of an egalitarian society where each new interruption emerges with a promise of renewal.
'This important pioneering study of eight of Woolf's novel derives from a sense of her 'rhythm of broken sequence': her characters who are open to interruption are also open to the 'aesthetic of disjunction situated at the heart of human interplay', while those not so open succumb to 'self-supporting insularity'Sensitively tying in biography with analysis, Ruotolo sheds considerable light on the novels (The Voyage Out, Night and Day, Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, The Years, and Between the Acts) ... Ruotolo reads Woolf closely, carefully, and astutely, and his analysis necessarily affects all subsequent work on Woolf; he writes clearly and persuasively, and he offers substantial support for his conclusions from Woolf's diaries and letters.' P. Schlueter, Choice
Lucio P. Ruotolo is Professor of English at Stanford University, and the author of Six Existential Heroes: The Politics of Faith and the editor of Virginia Woolf's Freshwater: A Play.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780804715232 |
| ISBN 10 | 0804715238 |
| Title | The Interrupted Moment |
| Author | Lucio Ruotolo |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press |
| Year published | 1988-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 276 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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