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Eret Talviste - Strange Intimacies – Affect, Embodiment and Materiality in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys, Inbunden

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Strange Intimacies – Affect, Embodiment and Materiality in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys

Affect, Embodiment and Materiality in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys

Av Eret Talviste

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This book explores how the novels by Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys To the Lighthouse (1927), The Waves (1931), Between the Acts (1941), After Leaving Mr Mackenzie (1930), Voyage in the Dark (1934) and Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) maintain an attachment to and love for life amid disenchanting times of war and social change. Drawing from Woolf's and Rhys's personal writings and fictions, Talviste demonstrates that Woolf and Rhys locate this attachment to life in the moments and atmospheres of 'strange intimacy' in sensual, affective and oddly intimate moments that function as cracks in the dominant patriarchal and imperial ideologies of Woolf's and Rhys's times. To theorise strange intimacy, this monograph rethinks the feminist works of Helene Cixous, especially her attention to materiality, affect and embodiment, in the light of contemporary affect studies and new materialism.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-10-31
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 21 mm
  • Vikt: 486 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 240
  • Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 9781399502375
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Eret Talviste is a researcher in English Literature at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Following a PhD scholarship in modernist intimacies at Northumbria University in Newcastle, she joined Tartu in 2021 as a part-time researcher. In 2022 she won the Estonian Research Council’s funding for a comparative project 'Women, Nations, and Affect: The Importance of Leida Kibuvits’s Writing in the Context of Transnational Modernisms'. She has published various book reviews, essays, and academic papers in both Estonian and English. This is her first monograph.

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Populated with feeling bodies and exploring sensory joy, this is a book for scholars interested in affective, affirmative approaches to the modernist novel. Supported by insights from feminist, new materialist and posthumanist thought, Talviste’s perceptive readings of Woolf and Rhys stage intimate encounters with human strangers and more-than-human strangeness.

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