Ravenous Identity: Eating and Eating Distress in the Life and Work of Virginia Woolf - Couverture rigide

Glenny, Allie

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0333765176 ISBN 13 : 9780333765173

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Synopsis

Leonard Woolf has described how, when Virginia Woolf's distress was at its most acute, "for weeks almost at every meal one had to sit, often for an hour or more, trying to induce her to eat a few mouthfuls". Drawing upon Alison Glenny's personal experience of anorexia, this work is a feminist consideration of Virginia Woolf's use of self-starvation as a life tool and food as a complex artistic metaphor. Glenny attempts to understand what underlay this distress for Virginia Woolf as an individual, an understanding which she arrives at by examining the way in which food and eating are symbolically expressed and explored in both Woolf's life and her work.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

ALLIE GLENNY lives in London. She writes from a thea-centric perspective about women's creative lives, and is also the author of prose-poetry pieces. She is a Dianic Witch, dances at every opportunity, and works as a freelance copy editor.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0333765176
• ISBN 13: 9780333765173
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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