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A Poetics of Postmodernism and Neomodernism

DOI: 10.1057/9781137490803

ISBN: 978-1-349-50440-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 9, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction: Legacies

Latham, Monica

Pages: 1 –15

[The study of the various rewritings spawned by Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway is to be found at the confluence of three main ideas in cultural trends and literary theory: first, the public’s unrelenting, ever growing cult of the impressive, ubiquitous figure of Virginia Woolf, who has become a...
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Chapter 2‘The Dressing-rooms, the Workshops, the Sculleries, the Bubbling Cauldrons’

Latham, Monica

Pages: 16 –61

[Since 1925, Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway has proved to exert a continuous appeal for generation after generation of readers and writers.1 It is a widely read and a much admired novel and a fertile territory from which other texts have sprouted. Mrs Dalloway has elicited numerous creative...
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Chapter 3Ventriloquists: Between Debt and Homage

Latham, Monica

Pages: 62 –98

[Michael Cunningham’s The Hours and Robin Lippincott’s Mr Dalloway are both heavily haunted by the shadow of Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway. Both authors have ‘ripped off Virginia Woolf in so many ways’1 and devised ingenious strategies of rewriting their predecessor’s hypotext. This chapter examines the...
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Chapter 4Parodic Games: Textual Assassinations and Canonical Resurrection

Latham, Monica

Pages: 99 –128

[After having examined the Woolfian ‘ventriloquists’, who dialogue with and pay homage to Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway while at the same time injecting fresh meanings into it, the present chapter is devoted to Woolfian ‘epigones’, who recycle, imitate, challenge, exaggerate and subvert the hypotext,...
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Chapter 5Virginia Woolf’s Neomodernist Heirs: Nostalgic Innovators

Latham, Monica

Pages: 129 –166

[Mrs Dalloway’s postmodernist rewritings studied in Chapters 2 and 3 reveal the reverential or antagonistic dialogues between the hypotext and its contemporary hypertextual heirs. The aim of the present chapter is to examine another category of texts mothered by Mrs Dalloway and written by...
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Chapter 6The Artful Ornament of Ordinariness

Latham, Monica

Pages: 167 –207

[Mrs Dalloway, the inexhaustible source-text, has invited multiple and varied dialogues with it and generated different nuances and variations. Numerous contemporary writers have drawn inspiration from its formal and thematic features and redeployed Virginia Woolf’s modernist strategies in their...
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Chapter 7Conclusion: New Kids on the Virginia Woolf Block

Latham, Monica

Pages: 208 –213

[A Poetics of Postmodernism and Neomodernism: Rewriting Mrs Dalloway has examined how the ‘kids on the Virginia Woolf block’1 have employed the ‘mythical method’,2 borrowed and appropriated Woolf’s legacy, and made her Dallowayisms and modernist precepts their own. Mrs Dalloway’s offspring inform...

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