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Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf

Sina Queyras

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Description:From a Lambda-winning poet, Rooms shows the defining spaces a queer writer moved through as they found their way to a life of words.Thirty years ago, a professor threw a chair at Sina Queyras after they’d turned in an essay on Virginia Woolf.Queyras returns to that contentious first encounter with Virginia Woolf to recover the body and thinking of that time.Rooms, bodies, Beadles: using Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own as a touchstone, this book is both an homage to and provocation of the idea of a room of one’s own at the centre of our idea of a literary life.How central is the room? And what happens once we get one? Do we inhabit our rooms? Or do the rooms contain us? Blending memoir, prose, tweets, poetry, and criticism, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind, and from a very private life of the mind to a public life of the page, and from a life of the page into a life in the Academy, the Internet, and social medias.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf. To get started finding Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 160

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Coach House Books

Release: 2022

ISBN: 1552454339

Description: From a Lambda-winning poet, Rooms shows the defining spaces a queer writer moved through as they found their way to a life of words.Thirty years ago, a professor threw a chair at Sina Queyras after they’d turned in an essay on Virginia Woolf.Queyras returns to that contentious first encounter with Virginia Woolf to recover the body and thinking of that time.Rooms, bodies, Beadles: using Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own as a touchstone, this book is both an homage to and provocation of the idea of a room of one’s own at the centre of our idea of a literary life.How central is the room? And what happens once we get one? Do we inhabit our rooms? Or do the rooms contain us? Blending memoir, prose, tweets, poetry, and criticism, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind, and from a very private life of the mind to a public life of the page, and from a life of the page into a life in the Academy, the Internet, and social medias.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf. To get started finding Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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