By Derek Ryan

Explores Woolf's writing along Deleuzian philosophy and new materialist theories of 'sex', 'animal', and 'life''

How does Virginia Woolf conceptualise the fabric global? In what methods has Woolf's modernism affected understandings of materiality, and what new views does she supply modern theoretical debates? Derek Ryan demonstrates how materiality is theorised in Woolf's writings via targeting the connections she makes among tradition and nature, embodiment and setting, human and nonhuman, lifestyles and topic. via shut readings of texts together with To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One's Own, The Waves, Flush, he info the insights Woolf presents into concerns in regards to the wildlife, sexual distinction, sexuality, animality, and existence itself.

Ryan opens up Woolf experiences to new theoretical paradigms through putting Woolf in discussion with Gilles Deleuze - who cites her modernist aesthetics as exemplary of a few of his most vital philosophical strategies - in addition to eminent modern theorists together with Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway, Karen Barad, and Jane Bennett, all of whom have inspired the new severe flip in the direction of new materialisms. finding conception inside Woolf's writing in addition to finding Woolf inside conception, Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of thought: intercourse, Animal, Life brings her modernism firmly into to the foreground of present debates in literary reviews, feminist philosophy, queer conception, animal reviews and posthumanities.

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