{"product_id":"virginia-woolf-and-the-ethics-of-intimacy-paperback-1","title":"Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElsa Högberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevisiting Virginia Woolf's most experimental novels, Elsa Högberg explores how Woolf's writing prompts us to re-examine the meaning of intimacy. In Högberg's readings of \u003ci\u003eJacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/i\u003e, intimacy is revealed to inhere not just in close relations with the ones we know and love, but primarily within those unsettling encounters which suspend our comfortable sense of ourselves as separate from others and the world around us. \u003ci\u003eVirginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e locates this radical\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003enotion of intimacy at the heart of Woolf's\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eintrospective, modernist poetics as well as her ethical and political resistance to violence, aggressive nationalism and fascism. Engaging contemporary theory - particularly the more recent works of Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva - it reads Woolf as a writer and ethical thinker whose vital contribution to the modernist scene of inter-war Britain is strikingly\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003erelevant to critical debates\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003earound intimacy, affect, violence and vulnerability in our own time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElsa Högberg\u003c\/b\u003e is a research fellow in English Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 26, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703642222899,"sku":"9781350237438","price":87.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/WWsweVdtUEpVZlJpQU1VVTRjNFBNQT09_d9af2389-8451-4b1c-9295-54eee1b8d527.webp?v=1763334098","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/virginia-woolf-and-the-ethics-of-intimacy-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}