Reading Uncommonly: Virginia Woolf and the Practice of Reading

1996; Modern Humanities Research Association; Volume: 26; Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/3508657

ISSN

2222-4289

Autores

Kate Flint,

Tópico(s)

Irish and British Studies

Resumo

'Sometimes'., wrote Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth in I934, I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading. Its a disembodied trance-like intense rapture that used to seize me as a girl, and comes back now and again down here [at Rodmell], with a violence that lays me low [... ] the state of reading consists in the complete elimination of the ego; and its the ego that erects itself like another part of the body I dont dare to name.1

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