Contemporary Biographies of Virginia Woolf for Young Readers
This article explores how modern biographies reinterpret Virginia Woolf’s life, aesthetics, and legacy through text and images, focusing on three works: the picturebooks Virginia Woolf, la escritora de lo invisible by Luisa Antolín Villota and Antonia Santolaya, and Virginia Wolf by Kyo Maclear and...
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| Publicado en: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/strenae, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lenguaje: | Anglais |
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Strenae
2026
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| Acceso en línea: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumario: | This article explores how modern biographies reinterpret Virginia Woolf’s life, aesthetics, and legacy through text and images, focusing on three works: the picturebooks Virginia Woolf, la escritora de lo invisible by Luisa Antolín Villota and Antonia Santolaya, and Virginia Wolf by Kyo Maclear and Isabelle Arsenault, and the graphic biography Virginia Woolf by Michèle Gazier and Bernard Ciccolini. Drawing on Woolf’s essays The New Biography and The Art of Biography, Maggie Humm’s research on Woolf and visual culture (2010), and Sandra Beckett’s concept of crossover literature (2009), the study examines how these biographies blend facts and imagination while translating Woolf’s modernist vision into multimodal formats. Each biography turns life writing into a visual expression of perception, emotion, and creativity, expanding Woolf’s experimental aesthetics for new audiences. These narratives reinforce her legacy as a space where literature and visual art converge across generations. |
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