oupacademic: A Very Short Fact:English author Virginia Woolf died on this day in 1941. A long-time s
oupacademic: A Very Short Fact: English author Virginia Woolf died on this day in 1941. A long-time sufferer of depression, Woolf sensed the return of her mental illness and committed suicide. “The idea that the artist can in this way make a cognitive gain for us all in terms of psychological realism is clearly stated by Virginia Woolf, and it marks a conceptual shift, towards an exploration of particular philosophical ideas about subjectivity, which brings about a paradigm change in the 20th-century conception of the self. In realist novels, according to her: ‘Every sort of town is represented, and innumerable institutions; we see factories, prisons, workhouses, law courts, Houses of Parliament; a general clamour, the voice of aspiration, indignation, effort and industry rises from the whole; but in all this vast conglomeration of printed pages, in all this congeries of streets and horses, there is not a single man or woman whom we know.’” [P. 53:Modernism: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Butler] Like the Very Short Introductions on Facebook for more from the series. Image credit: Virginia Woolf, 1927 by Harvard Theater Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. -- source link