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Article: BUILDING A LIBRARY: Virginia Woolf
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 27, 2004
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No other 20th-century writer has been so thoroughly described,
analysed, critiqued, satirised and appropriated as Virginia Woolf.
Her work has incited shelf- loads of books and thousands of articles,
written from a dazzling array of perspectives. This writer has
become, in the words of Helen Dudar, "the Marilyn Monroe of American
academia", both an industry and a cultural icon.
This notion is brilliantly explored in Virginia Woolf Icon (1999)
by Brenda R Silver, who is particularly alert to the gender and
sexuality issues that played into Woolf's posthumous reputation. With
reference to literary periodicals, stage and screen adaptations,
films, photography and fashion, Silver traces ...