Ann Banfield

The Phantom Table

Woolf, Fry, Russell and the Epistemology of Modernism

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Produktbeschreibung

Virginia Woolf identified the influence on her work of 'the Cambridge Apostles', the philosophical society which counted G. E. Moore, Bertrand Russell and much of male Bloomsbury among its members, as one more 'capable of description' than 'the influence of my mother'. In this major study of Woolf's relationship to Bloomsbury and the aesthetic and philosophical developments of her time, Ann Banfield subjects that influence to its first full treatment. The theory of knowledge Moore and Russell formulated, Banfield argues, profoundly affected Woolf's conception of reality, as it did Roger Fry's theory of Post-Impressionism, one source for Woolf's transformations of philosophical principles into aesthetic ones. The Phantom Table is a magisterial account of Woolf's engagement with this remarkable trinity of thinkers: Moore, Russell, Fry. It radically revises the epistemology of modernism, reconceiving the relation between realism and formalism to account for Woolf's dual reality of sense impressions and logical forms.

Table of contents:
1. Introduction: table talk; Part I. Subject and Object and the Nature of Reality: 2. The geometry in the sensible world: Russell's analysis of matter; 3. The world seen without the self: Woolf's analysis of matter; 4. Solus ipse, alone in the universe; 5. The dualism of death; Part II. Principia Aesthetica: 6. Fry's granite and rainbow: post-impressionism and impressionism; 7. How to describe the world seen without a self? 8. The modern elegy.

Virginia Woolf was profoundly influenced by 'The Cambridge Apostles', the philosophical society which included much of male Bloomsbury. In this major study of Woolf's relationship to Bloomsbury and the aesthetic and philosophical developments of her time, Ann Banfield subjects that influence to its first full treatment.

Major study of Woolf's relationship to Bloomsbury and the aesthetic and philosophical developments of her time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 882g
• ISBN-13: 9780521773478
• ISBN-10: 0521773474
• Artikelnr.: 22450155

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Preface
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction: table talk
Part I. Subject and Object and the Nature of Reality: 2. The geometry in the sensible world: Russell's analysis of matter
3. The world seen without a self: Woolf's analysis of matter
4. Solus ipse, alone in the universe
5. The dualism of death
Part II. Principia Aesthetica: 6. Fry's granite and rainbow: post-impressionism and impressionism
7. How to describe the world seen without a self?
8. The modern elegy
Notes
Bibliography
Index.