Call for Contributors
The Flash of Some Terrible Reality Leaping: New Explorations of Virginia
Woolf and the Real
Most book-length scholarship on Virginia Woolf and the real belongs to
the 1970s and 80s--such as Harvena Richter's discussion of stream-of-
consciousness as realism in _Virginia Woolf: The Inward Voyage (1970)_,
the dialogue between Elaine Showalter (Virginia Woolf and the Flight
into Androgyny 1977) and Toril Moi (_Sexual/Textual Politics_ 1985)
about the real and form, and the topical discussions of Mark Hussey
(Woolf's philosophy through her writing in _The Singing of the Real
World_ 1986) and Alex Zwerdling (_Virginia Woolf and the Real World_,
1986, which deals with Woolf's relationship with society).
The only book-length text to deal extensively with Woolf and the real
in the 1990s is Herta Newman's _Virginia Woolf and Mrs. Brown: Toward
a Realism of Uncertainty_, a text that ends with a pessimistic
interpretation of Woolf's realism.
We propose that it is time to reexamine the real in Woolf's writing,
revisiting old discussions and drawing on new literary theories, with an
emphasis on the ways Woolf deals constructively with the real. This
anthology will provide a place for such exploration. We welcome article
proposals from a variety of disciplines that build on the existing
scholarship.
Potential topics:
*Literary realism
*Theoretical approaches from Bakhtin, feminism, Marxism, phenomenology,
postmodernism, psychoanalysis, etc.
*Romantic notions of the real
*Reevaluation of existing texts that deal with Woolf and the real
*Political uses of the real
*Reality and art
*The real and technology
*Autobiography, trauma and realism
Send one copy of proposal or full-length paper to either of the
addresses below. E-mail submissions are acceptable. Proposals
should be 300-350 words; papers submitted should not exceed 25-30
double-spaced pages. Proposals and papers submitted via regular mail
should include a separate cover sheet with name, title, affiliation,
and contact information. E-mail submissions can include this information
in the body of the message.
Deadline for proposals is February 15, 2000.
Carmine Esposito
Department of English, U-Box 1025
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269
Ecclespo@aol.com
Nancy Knowles
Department of English, U-Box 1025
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269
nak96001@uconnvm.uconn.edu
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