Recycling Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Art and Literature

Monica Latham is Professor of English Literature at Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France. Caroline Marie is Senior Lecturer at Université Paris 8, France, where she teaches English Literature. Anne-Laure Rigeade teaches French language and literature at Sciences Po Reims, France.

• Foreword Mark HusseyIntroduction: On Recycling Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Art and Literature (Anne-Laure Rigeade, Monica Latham and Caroline Marie)Part I: Recycling and CompostingChapter 1: Virginia Woolf’s Radical Vision of Recycling (Christine Reynier)Chapter 2: Virginia Woolf and Compost (Supriya Chaudhuri)Part II: Recycling Woolf in Visual ArtsChapter 3: Of Words, Worlds and Woolf: Recycling A Room of One’s Own into Of One Woman or So(Kabe Wilson and Susan Stanford Friedman)Chapter 4: Recycling/Upcycling the Iconic Woolf? Negotiating Woolf as a Literary and Feminist Icon in Kabe Wilson’s Of One Woman or So, by Olivia N’Gowfry (Valérie Favre)Chapter 5: Recycling Virginia Woolf’s Remembrance (Gérard Lebègue and Anne-Laure Rigeade)Part III: Recycling Woolf On StageChapter 6: Dancing Woolf Back to Life: Woolf Works as Critical and Artistic Recycling (Elisa Bolchi)Chapter 7: Cooking and Recycling in Irina Brook’s Shakespeare’s Sister ou La Vie Matérielle (Théâtre Nationale de Nice 2015): For a Relational Aesthetics (Pascale Sardin)Chapter 8: ‘Reading Physical’: Strategies for Recycling and Performing Woolf’s Works in the English Literature Classroom (Jean-Rémi Lapaire)Part IV: Recycling Woolf as a Textual IconChapter 9: Katharine Smyth’s All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf: Recycling Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse as Therapy and Homage (Monica Latham)Chapter 10: To the Lighthouse: Recycling, Remixing, Iconising (Anne-Laure Rigeade)Chapter 11: ‘Something Rich and Strange?’: Drowning, Resurfacing and Recycling in Biofiction About Woolf (Bethany Layne)Part V: Recycling Woolf in Popular CultureChapter 12: ‘I Am Made and Remade Continually. Different People Draw Different Words From Me.’ Reading #WoolfLiteraryTattoos as Recycling (Caroline Marie)Chapter 13: Becoming an Earthly Star: The Popularisation of Virginia Woolf in the World of Virtual Astrology (Cristina Carluccio)Conclusion: ‘The Words’ (Christine Froula)

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