February 2012
12 posts
Whittaker good: Travel and Modernist Literature:... →
whittakeres:
Travel and Modernist Literature: Sacred and Ethical Journeys Through close readings of works from Henry James to W. E. B. Du Bois, and from Virginia Woolf to Jean Rhys, this book discusses how fictional travelers negotiate and adapt various tropes of travel (such as quest, expatriation,…
mythologyofblue:
Light floods the room and drives shadow beyond shadow to where they hang in folds inscrutable. What does this central shadow hold? Something? Nothing? I do not know…
-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
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“It is not given to every man to take a bath of multitude; enjoying a crowd is an...”
– Baudelaire, Crowds (via bbcity)
“Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where...”
– Walter Benjamin, One-Way Street and Other Writings (via mythologyofblue)