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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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It is sad that she did not live long enough to complete the book she envisioned incorporating those essays in. No doubt it would have been a challenging book.

CONCLUSION

I mentioned St. Francis of Assisi's "Canticle of Brother Sun" above as an example of a medieval song. In it, St. Francis expresses what Bruteau refers to as communion consciousness.

On June 18, 2015, Pope Francis' encyclical about the environment will be released. According to advance reports, he deliberately echoes certain expression that St. Francis of Assisi uses in his "Canticle of Brother Sun."

No doubt Pope Francis' encyclical about the environment will express his sense of communion consciousness.

In Virginia Woolf's mature novels from MRS. DALLOWAY (1925) onward she expresses her sense of communion consciousness in various ways.

But Virginia Woolf is not everybody's cup of tea. You have to acquire a taste for her writing. Once you have acquired a taste for her writing, Hussey's 1995 book VIRGINIA WOOLF A TO Z is a wonderful resource to consult.

Recently, Hussey has served as the general editor of Harcourt's annotated series of Virginia Woolf's books. I hope that the annotated editions of her books that he has edited will help more people today to acquire a taste for her writing.

Arguably Virginia Woolf's expression of communion consciousness in her mature novels can help readers today to cultivate their own sense of communion consciousness.

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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)
 

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