Open AccessVirginia Woolf: Between writing and disease
Author(s) -
Josep Ballester Roca,
Noelia Ibarra Ríus
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
mètode. annual review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.129
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2174-9221
pISSN - 2174-3487
DOI - 10.7203/metode.8.10461
Subject(s) - literature , mental illness , key (lock) , aesthetics , psychoanalysis , life writing , history , literary criticism , sociology , art , psychology , biography , mental health , psychotherapist , computer science , computer security
Theauthors offer an analysis of mental illness in the work of a keytwentieth century author: Virginia Woolf. A critical review of herliterary legacy allows us to get closer to what might be one of themost intense literary portrayals of illness and its metaphors and, atthe same time, to the representations, euphemisms, silences, andmonsters depicted in the chapters of her life and in the unique voiceof an essential author.