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1988. Although recent scientific discoveries about the genetic and biochemical components of manic-depressive psychosis have radically revised our understanding of the etiology and psychodynamics of this…. Expand. 15. Semantic Scholar extracted view of "Psychosensory images from Virginia Woolf's "A Sketch of the Past"." by M. Sherman.
2 de dic. de 2022 · Citation Hannah Sullivan argues that “Sketch” is not as unfinished as it appears: Woolf partially revised the text to preserve or expand its fragmented nature. Conversely, Citation Alex Zwerdling argues that we cannot consider “Sketch” and Woolf’s other posthumous autobiographical writings to be definitive self-portraits for the simple fact that Woolf did not consider them finished ...
Rooms of Memory: “A Sketch of the Past” At the beginning of “A Sketch of the Past,” the main piece in the collec-tion of autobiographical writings published as Moments of Being in 1976, then again in extended form in 1985, Woolf wonders whether it is possible for “things we have felt with great intensity” to “have an existence inde-
In “A Sketch”, the obstacles to a full reconstruction of the past turn visible and inevitable that there is the creation of a new past, similar to it but also different from it. In spite of all the efforts at truthfulness, the truth the text produces is always necessarily revisited, corrected and revised in its telling, a mixture of past and present, a process of self-invention.
These were the circumstances that dictated my choice of writing on “A Sketch of the Past”, published in Moments of Being – A Collection of Autobiographical Writing, (1976, 1985) and of analysing the narrative strategies used by the author to tell herself, to construct her identity and power, giving voice and authority to herself as a discursive formation.
Books. Moments of Being. Virginia Woolf. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985 - Biography & Autobiography - 230 pages. Moments of Being is "the single most moving and beautiful thing that Virginia Woolf ever wrote about her own life" (The New York Times) and her only autobiographical writing, published years after her death.
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