Virginia Woolf: visual poetics and the politics of visibility

Abstract

Amongst the tantalizing variety of books and critical essays both on Woolf’s life and work that keep coming out, recent criticism, maybe due to the growing space given to the study of inter art poetics, seems to be particularly oriented to the intersection of the visual world in Woolf’s textual production. In parallel to this, a new trend of criticism has developed, along the lines of Postmodernism, considering the multi “re-fashionings” of Woolf within the contemporary visual culture and the impact of the media on her work and her personality