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Article: 'This curious silent unrepresented life': Greek lessons in Virginia Woolf's early fiction.(Critical Essay)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2005
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'This Curious Silent Unrepresented Life': Greek Lessons in Virginia Woolf's Early Fiction by Vassiliki Kolocotroni
Virginia Woolf famously identified with the culturally disenfranchised. As a young woman and aspiring writer, she was irked by her exclusion from formal training in the classics, and especially Greek, a language and a literature in which, she would later argue, 'the stable, the permanent, the original human being is to be found'. Yet Woolf's knowledge of classical Greek is remarkable and inflects early efforts such as The Voyage Out and its original version, entitled in a Greek manner Melymbrosia. This article offers a reading of Woolf's deployment ...