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Virginia Woolf & Postmodernism: Literature In Quest & Question Of Itself, Pamela L. Caughie

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Virginia Woolf and Postmodernism argues not that Virginia Woolf is a postmodernist but that postmodern assumptions about art can account for her narrative innovations and feminist politics better than conventional modernist and feminist approaches to her works. In rethinking many of the prominent aesthetic and critical positions of her day, Woolf anticipated many postmodernist tenets. This book helps us to understand how and why she came to hold such views, and how we might change our reading of Woolf and narrative literature in turn.

Pamela Caughie brings together pragmatism and postmodern theory to move critical inquiry, particularly feminist criticism and …

Sir Thomas Browne And Orlando, Pamela L. Caughie

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

A reading of Browne induces us to approach a novel which recaptures Browne's attitude, themes, and style in so many ways with a willingness to remain suspended between beliefs. Orlando, to the extent that it resembles Browne's writings, combats a literal-minded, end-seeking, purposeful reading.