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Modernist Cultures reclaiming the genre of the bildungsroman as a subject of interest to scholars of modernism. Benjamin Kohlmann University of Freiburg Notes 1. Franco Moretti, The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture, trans. Albert Sbragia, 2nd edition (London: Verso, 2000), 230. Randi Saloman, Virginia Woolf's Essayism (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012). 192pp. ISBN: 9780748646487. There is a perverse pleasure to be had in imagining the dutiful student, researching an essay of their own, reaching for Randi Saloman's Virginia Woolf's Essayism only to be confronted with the following: `[Woolf] may evade, that is, any sense of the essay as a didactic or tedious format in which the writer delivers his own viewpoint or experiences and offers nothing by way of entertainment a sense which, Woolf makes clear again and again over the course of her career, is badly misguided' (40). One suspects the student would feel the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass, recognizing the `didactic or tedious format' in the essay she must write, adhering to institutional and generic practices that (unlike Woolf) she is powerless to evade. With deadlines to meet, she would recoil from Saloman's provocative thesis:
Modernist Cultures – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Oct 1, 2014
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