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'Nothing is simply one thing': Woolf, Deleuze and Difference
This paper explores some key texts of Virginia Woolf in the context of Deleuzian concepts. Using a close reading style, it shows how the prose poetry in Mrs Dalloway engages a complex interplay of repetition and difference, resulting in a remarkably similar model of the three syntheses of time as De...
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Published in: | Deleuze & Guattari Studies 2013-11, Vol.7 (4), p.456-474 |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Summary: | This paper explores some key texts of Virginia Woolf in the context of Deleuzian concepts. Using a close reading style, it shows how the prose poetry in
Mrs Dalloway
engages a complex interplay of repetition and difference, resulting in a remarkably similar model of the three syntheses of time as Deleuze understands them. It subsequently explores Woolf's technical processes in a key passage from
To the Lighthouse
, showing how the prose-poetic technique systematically undoes the structures of logical fact and rationality inscribed in both language and everyday speech to an extremely precise level. |
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ISSN: | 1750-2241 2398-9777 1755-1684 2398-9785 |
DOI: | 10.3366/dls.2013.0124 |