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SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING:
Between the Acts
(in addition to the works cited in the introduction)
Ames, Christopher. “The Modernist Canon Narrative: Woolf’s Between the Acts and Joyce’s ‘Oxen of the Sun.’” Twentieth Century Literature 37 (1991): 390–404.
Beer, Gillian. “Between the Acts: Resisting the End.” In Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground, 125–48. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
——. “The Island and the Aeroplane: The Case of Virginia Woolf.” In Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground, 149–78. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
——. “Virginia Woolf and Pre-History.” In Arguing with the Past: Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney, 159–82. New York: Routledge, 1989.
Busse, Kristina. “Reflecting the Subject in History: The Return of the Real in Between the Acts.” Woolf Studies Annual 7 (2001): 75–101.
Cuddy-Keane, Melba. “The Politics of Comic Modes in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts.” PMLA 105 (1990): 273–85.
De Gay, Jane. “Bringing the Literary Past to Life in Between the Acts.” In Virginia Woolf’s Novels and the Literary Past, 186–211. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau. “‘“I” rejected; “We” substituted’: The Later Novels of Woolf.” In Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers, 162–77. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1985.
Esty, Joshua. “Insular Rites: Virginia Woolf and the Later Modernist Pageant-Play.” In A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England, 54–107. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.
Herman, David. “Towards a Metapragmatics of Represented Discourse: Prague School Functionalism and Woolf’s Between the Acts.” In Universal Grammar and Narrative Form, 139–81. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1995.
Hussey, Mark “‘“I” Rejected; “We” Substituted’: Self and Society in Between the Acts.” In Reading and Writing Women’s Lives: A Study of the Novel of Manners. Edited by Bege K. Bowers and Barbara Brothers, 141–52. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1990.
——. “Reading and Ritual in Between the Acts.” Anima 15.2 (Spring 1989): 89–99.
Joplin, Patricia Klindienst. “The Authority of Illusion: Feminism and Fascism in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts.” South Central Review 6.2 (Summer 1989): 88–104.
Marder, Herbert. The Measure of Life: Virginia Woolf’s Last Years. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.
McIntire, Gabrielle. “Remembering what has almost already been forgotten: where memory touches history.” In Modernism, Memory, and Desire: T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, 180–209. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
McWhirter, David. “The Novel, the Play, and the Book: Between the Acts and the Tragicomedy of History.” ELH 60.3 (1993): 787–812.
——. “Woolf, Eliot, and the Elizabethans: The Politics of Modernist Nostalgia.” In Virginia Woolf: Reading the Renaissance. Edited by Sally Greene, 245–66. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1999.
Miller, Andrew John. “‘Our Representative, Our Spokesman’: Modernity, Professionalism, and Representation in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts.” Studies in the Novel 33.1 (2001): 34–50.
Miller, J. Hillis. “Between the Acts: Repetition as Extrapolation.” In Fiction and Repetition: Seven English Novels, 203–31. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982.
Miller, Marlowe A. “Unveiling ‘the Dialectic of Culture and Barbarism’ in British Pageantry: Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts.” Papers on Language and Literature: A Journal for Scholars and Critics of Language and Literature 34.2 (1998): 134–61.
Pridmore-Brown, Michele. “1939–40: Of Virginia Woolf, Gramophones, and Fascism.” PMLA 113.3 (1998): 408–21.
Rosenfeld, Natania. “Monstrous Conjugations: Images of Dictatorship in the Anti-Fascist Writings of Virginia and Leonard Woolf.” In Virginia Woolf and Fascism: Resisting the Dictators’ Seduction. Edited by Merry M. Pawlowski, 122–36. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave, 2001.
Ruotolo, Lucio. “The Tyranny of Leadership: Between the Acts.” In The Interrupted Moment: A View of Virginia Woolf’s Novels, 205–30. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1986.
Scott, Bonnie Kime. “The Subversive Mechanics of Woolf’s Gramophone in Between the Acts.” In Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Music, Cinema, Photography, and Popular Culture, 97–113. Edited by Pamela L. Caughie. New York: Garland, 2000.
Southworth, Helen. “Virginia Woolf’s Wild England’: George Borrow, Autoethnography, and Between the Acts.” Studies in the Novel 39.2 (2007): 196–215.
Tratner, Michael. “Why Isn’t Between the Acts a Movie?” In Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Music, Cinema, Photography, and Popular Culture. Edited by Pamela L. Caughie, 115–34. New York: Garland, 2000.
Westman, Karin E. “‘For Her Generation the Newspaper Was a Book’: Media, Mediation, and Oscillation in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts.” Journal of Modern Literature 29.2 (2006): 1–18.
Wiley, Catherine. “Making History Unrepeatable in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts.” CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 25.1 (1995): 3–20.
Wirth-Nesher, Hana. “Final Curtain on the War: Figure and Ground in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts.” Style 28.2 (1994): 183–200.
Yoshino, Ayako. “Between the Acts and Louis Napoleon Parker—the Creator of the Modern English Pageant.” Critical Survey 15.2 (2003): 49–62.
About the Author
VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882–1941), one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, transformed the art of fiction. The author of numerous novels, collections of letters, journals, and short stories, she was also an admired literary critic and a master of the essay form.
Footnotes
1 Woolf’s early diary is published as A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897–1909, edited by Mitchell A. Leaska. A 1909 notebook discovered in 2002 has been published as Carole’s House and Other Sketches, edited by David Bradshaw (London: Hesperus, 2003).
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