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" Speaking crudely, football and sport are "important"; the worship of fashion, the buying of clothes "trivial." And these values are inevitably transferred from life to fiction. This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war.... "
Whatever Happened to Jacy Farrow? - Page vi
by Ceil Cleveland - 1997 - 321 pages
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Israeli Mythogynies: Women in Contemporary Hebrew Fiction

Esther Fuchs - 1987 - 168 pages
...significant as men's concerns. Virginia Woolf described the fallacious thinking of androcentric critics thus: "This is an important book, the critic assumes, because...everywhere and much more subtly the difference of value persists."12 The dismissive attitude toward the contents of Kahana-Carmon's fiction may explain the...
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War's Other Voices: Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War

Miriam Cooke - 1987 - 224 pages
...with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing room. A scene in a battlefield is more important than a scene in a shop. (Virginia Woolf, A Room Of One's Own, p. 77) The Lebanese civil war began on 1 3 April 1975, two weeks...
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Veils and Words: The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers

Farzaneh Milani - 1992 - 332 pages
...At Home. 41. Amirshahi, After the Last Day, 160. 42. In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf writes: "Yet it is the masculine values that prevail. Speaking...much more subtly the difference of value persists" (77). 43. Faridoun Gilani, "Forugh Minus Propaganda Plus Herself," Tehran Keyhan (Feb. 10, 1977), 2....
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Untamed and Unabashed: Essays on Women and Humor in British Literature

Regina Barreca - 1994 - 204 pages
...Virginia Woolf alerts women to this difference in A Room of One's Own when she explains that is it obvious that the values of women differ very often...much more subtly the difference of value persists. (76) Significantly, a discussion of women's comedy is necessary because, as Annette Kolodny has argued,...
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Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State

Christina K. Gilmartin - 1994 - 474 pages
...point of view on what constitutes the importance of any subject. Could it be taken for granted that "a scene in a battlefield is more important than a scene in a shop"3 — assuming, of course, that the man is on the battlefield and the woman in the shop? In addition...
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Nobody's Angels: Middle-class Women and Domestic Ideology in Victorian Culture

Elizabeth Langland - 1995 - 292 pages
...this way, serves as both exemplum and elaboration of Virginia Woolf s comment in A Room of One's Own that the values of women differ very often from the...much more subtly the difference of value persists. (76-77) Yet, my point here comprehends much more than an examination of the differences between male...
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Bearing Meaning: The Language of Birth

Robbie Kahn - 1998 - 474 pages
...pangs, the anguish throbbed in Agamemnon now. HOMER This is an insignificant book, the critic assumes, because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room....subtly the difference of value persists. VIRGINIA WOOLF Reproduction is not just a handicap and a cause of second-class status; it is an achievement, the authentic...
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A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas

Virginia Woolf - 1998 - 488 pages
...are to some extent those of real life. But it is obvious that the values of women differ very [95] often from the values which have been made by the...much more subtly the difference of value persists. The whole structure, therefore, of the early nineteenth-century novel was raised, if one was a woman,...
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The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

Sue Roe, Susan Sellers - 2000 - 312 pages
...A Room of One's Own, playing, as in Three Guineas, with the relationships between money and value: It is obvious that the values of women differ very...much more subtly the difference of value persists. (ROO, p. 67) In her imagined fiction of the future in A Room of One's Own, the scene is indeed set...
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Writing the Meal: Dinner in the Fiction of Early Twentieth-century Women Writers

Diane E. McGee - 2002 - 236 pages
...literary canons has been a problem for women writers: 'it is the masculine values that prevail ... This is an important book, the critic assumes, because...much more subtly the difference of value persists' (Room 74). Certainly Joyce, Eliot, and other male modernists portray ordinary domestic life, and, in...
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