Making history unrepeatable in Virginia Woolf's 'Between the Acts.'

Virginia Woolf's 'Between the Acts' is a novel that subverts theater, history and realism to challenge assumptions about the relationships between actor, audience, character and the 'audience's relationship to its own collective narrative.' In so doing, Woolf constructs...

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Published in:Clio (Fort Wayne, Ind.) Ind.), 1995-09, Vol.25 (1), p.3
Main Author: Wiley, Catherine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Audiences
British & Irish literature
Criticism and interpretation
English literature
History
Literary criticism
Novels
Politics
Reading
Women authors
Women writers
Woolf, Virginia
Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)
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Summary:Virginia Woolf's 'Between the Acts' is a novel that subverts theater, history and realism to challenge assumptions about the relationships between actor, audience, character and the 'audience's relationship to its own collective narrative.' In so doing, Woolf constructs a 'feminist and pacific polemic' that invites readers to consider how they may prevent history from being repeated through the story of Miss La Trobe's theatrical staging of a England's history.
ISSN:0884-2043