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Article: The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Europe.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2005
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The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Europe. Ed. by MARY ANN CAWS and NICOLA LUCKHURST. (Athlone Critical Traditions: The Reception of British Authors in Europe) London and New York: Continuum. 2002. xxvii+450 pp. 125 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8264-5588-3.
As several of the contributors to this volume acknowledge, a project such as this raises problems of definition at every step. How are we to define 'Virginia Woolf'--as a network of texts, as a biographical person, or as a representative icon? And how, in the context of this book, are we to understand the sense of the term 'reception'? While the editors do not discuss the issue, the term directs us to Hans-Robert ...