The Interrupted Moment: A View of Virginia Woolf's Novels, and: Virginia Woolf and the Languages of Patriarchy, and: Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury (review)
Virginia Woolf is ideally suited to contemporary critical discourse. A remarkable number of key twentieth-century preoccupations, which remain the preoccupations of literary critics now, converge in her work. It is not just that her texts yield up riches, over and over again, to analysis informed by all current or recent critical orientations. That formulation makes her work seem a passive feeding ground for the publication-hungry critical establishment. Rather, her writing engages in a profound and multifarious way the issues out of which all those critical orientations have arisen.