The Reading of Silence

The Reading of Silence

Virginia Woolf in the English Tradition

by Patricia Ondek Laurence

241 pages· 1993· ISBN 9780804721790
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This is a study of Virginia Woolf's preoccupation with silence and the barrier between the sayable and the unsayable. It draws upon a wide range of thinkers from Kierkegaard to Kristeva and Derrida, demonstrating that Woolf was the first modern writer to practice silence in her writing.

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