 | Virginia Woolf - 1984 - 388 páginas
...reprinted in 10,32 in The Common Reader: Second Series. Her advice, as good today as it was then, was "to take no advice, to follow your own instincts,...your own reason, to come to your own conclusions." Like so many other of her ideas that have put her in the cultural vanguard of our century, those expressed... | |
 | Carlton E. Munson - 2002 - 672 páginas
...supervisors. Questionnaires used in some of this research can be found in the appendixes. STYLE OF READING The only advice, indeed, that one person can give...your own reason, to come to your own conclusions, (p. 281 ) Given Woolf's suggestion, only one recommendation is offered: the reader should avoid becoming... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Flynn - 2002 - 244 páginas
...independence and not to bow to recognized authority. In "How Should One Read a Book?" she urges readers, "Take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to...your own reason, to come to your own conclusions" (234). Readers need to be free to evaluate works on their own terms, to discover their own approaches... | |
 | George Douglas Atkins - 2005 - 196 páginas
...Protestant position, refusing even to consult any outside authority. Dryden would condemn her opening salvo: "The only advice, indeed, that one person can give...instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions."14 Dryden tempers freedom with the recommendation — or requirement — that the layman... | |
 | Virginia Woolf, Mark Hussey - 1931 - 352 páginas
...legacy. Perhaps, though, these words from her essay "How Should One Read a Book?" are our best guide: "The only advice, indeed, that one person can give...your own reason, to come to your own conclusions." — MARK HUSSEY, GENERAL EDITOR CHRONOLOGY Information is arranged in this order: i. Virginia Woolf's... | |
 | Todd Avery - 2006 - 178 páginas
...the Desmond and Mary MacCarthy Papers at the Lilly Library, Indiana University. Bloomington. Indiana. instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions" (234). Perhaps drawing upon Walter Pater's praise of Renaissance antinomianism's "obscure prophetical... | |
 | Jane Mallison - 2007 - 315 páginas
...Sigrid Undset The House of Mirth Edith Wharton A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf 73 8/29/07 10:10:18 AM The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice. —Virginia Wool! (from "How Should One Read a Book?") CARYL CHURCHILL'S play Top Girls might well... | |
 | 2001 - 298 páginas
...title. Even if I could answer the question for myself, the answer would apply only to me and not to you. The only advice, indeed, that one person can give...about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts4, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions5. If this is agreed between us,... | |
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How Should One Read a Book?1 IN THE first place, I want to emphasise the note of interrogation at the end of my title. Even if I could answer the question for myself, the answer would apply only to me and not to you. The only advice, indeed, that one... 