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[CC] Simpson (Cardiff Metropolitan Univ., UK) offers an insightful and approachable explanation Woolf's narrative techniques, poetic language, and characterizations ... Simpson points out that unlike realist writers, Woolf emphasizes the inner life and consciousness of the characters. Simpson links themes such as empire and imperialism, anti-Semitism, and class structure to the works associated with them, once again offering clear explanations ... [T]hose struggling with Woolf's complex, rich narrative structures will welcome this addition to the Guides for the Perplexed series. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; general readers. CHOICE

[CC] Simpson (Cardiff Metropolitan Univ., UK) offers an insightful and approachable explanation Woolf's narrative techniques, poetic language, and characterizations … Simpson points out that unlike realist writers, Woolf emphasizes the inner life and consciousness of the characters. Simpson links themes such as empire and imperialism, anti-Semitism, and class structure to the works associated with them, once again offering clear explanations … [T]hose struggling with Woolf's complex, rich narrative structures will welcome this addition to the ""Guides for the Perplexed"" series. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; general readers. * CHOICE *

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Kathryn Simpson Senior Lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK, where she primarily teaches modernist, contemporary and nineteenth-century literature. She is author of Gifts, Markets and Economies of Desire in Virginia Woolf (2008).

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