Virginia Woolf: Between writing and disease

Authors

  • Josep Ballester-Roca University of Valencia (Spain)
  • Noelia Ibarra-Rius University of Valencia (Spain)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.8.10461

Keywords:

illness, literature, writing, Virginia Woolf, woman

Abstract

The authors offer an analysis of mental illness in the work of a key twentieth century author: Virginia Woolf. A critical review of her literary legacy allows us to get closer to what might be one of the most intense literary portrayals of illness and its metaphors and, at the same time, to the representations, euphemisms, silences, and monsters depicted in the chapters of her life and in the unique voice of an essential author.

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Author Biographies

Josep Ballester-Roca, University of Valencia (Spain)

Full Professor of the Department of Language and Literature Teaching of the University of Valencia (Spain). He currently directs the Spanish Society of Language and Literature Teaching (“Sociedad Española de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura”, SEDLL).

Noelia Ibarra-Rius, University of Valencia (Spain)

Tenure-track 2 professor of the Department of Language and Literature Teaching of the University of Valencia (Spain) and vice-dean of the Faculty of Teacher Training. She is a member of the board of the Spanish Society of Language and Literature Teaching (“Sociedad Española de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura”, SEDLL).

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Published

2018-06-05

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Ballester-Roca, J., & Ibarra-Rius, N. (2018). Virginia Woolf: Between writing and disease. Metode Science Studies Journal, (8), 223–229. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.8.10461
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Making science: A multitude of perspectives (2018)

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Narrating health. Literature and medicine

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