Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Richter, Yvonne Nicole Author's Email Address yrichter1@student.gsu.edu URN etd-04162009-164658 Title A CRITIC IN HER OWN RIGHT: TAKING VIRGINIA WOOLF’S LITERARY CRITICISM SERIOUSLY Degree Master of Arts Department English Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Dr. Randy Malamud Committee Chair Dr. Lee Anne Richardson Committee Member Dr. Paul Schmidt Committee Member Keywords
- Fiction
- Reviewing
- Literary criticism
- Women writers
- Journalism
- Essay
- Virginia Woolf
Date of Defense 2009-04-03 Availability unrestricted Abstract Considered mostly ancillary to her fiction, Virginia Woolf’s prolific career in literary criticism has rarely been studied in its entirety and in its own right. This study situates her in the common critical practices of her day and crystallizes basic tenets and a critical theory of sorts from her critical journalism published 1904–1928: the author argues that Woolf does not advocate a policing role for the critic, but rather that critics foster art in collaboration with readers and writers. Finally, this work discusses Woolf’s appeal to writers to invest all their energy in improving their skills in character portrayal to adequately depict all classes and genders in order to invent a new kind of psychological fiction.Files
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