Conversation, Conversion, Proportion
On the grounds of the etymological kinship between the words ‘conversion’ and ‘conversation’, the diatribe against Dr Bradshaw’s worship for ‘Proportion and Conversion’ in Mrs Dalloway can be read as a shadow praise of the art of conversation: a violent political and aesthetic manifesto echoing a nu...
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| Formatua: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Hizkuntza: | Anglais |
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Études britanniques contemporaines
2024
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Gaia: | On the grounds of the etymological kinship between the words ‘conversion’ and ‘conversation’, the diatribe against Dr Bradshaw’s worship for ‘Proportion and Conversion’ in Mrs Dalloway can be read as a shadow praise of the art of conversation: a violent political and aesthetic manifesto echoing a number of Virginia Woolf’s essays and autobiographical texts. |
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