"The Right Use of Reason": Virginia Woolf, Isaac Watts, and Logic

IF 0.2 2区 文学 0 LITERATURE ELH Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.1353/elh.2023.a900602
Sangam Macduff
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Abstract:This paper argues for a complex and sustained engagement with logic in Virginia Woolf's early fiction. Her 1899 diary, pasted into Isaac Watts's Logick (1786), contains Woolf's earliest literary compositions. Initially, Woolf selected Watts's book because of its size and binding, but closer examination reveals considerable interaction with Logick. As the first book Woolf made, and her first formal literary experiment, it is significant that the diary responds to, and reacts against, traditional logic. Woolf's early essays and novels continue this agonistic relationship with the logic of Leslie Stephen, G. E. Moore and Bertrand Russell, creating a productive tension that helps shape To the Lighthouse.
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《理性的正确运用》:弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫、艾萨克·沃茨与逻辑学
摘要:本文论述了弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫早期小说中对逻辑的复杂而持续的运用。她1899年的日记,贴在艾萨克·沃茨的《逻辑学》(1786)中,包含了伍尔夫最早的文学作品。最初,伍尔夫选择瓦茨的书是因为它的大小和装订,但更仔细的研究发现,与Logick有相当大的相互作用。作为伍尔夫的第一本书,也是她第一次正式的文学实验,这本日记对传统逻辑的回应和反抗具有重要意义。伍尔夫早期的散文和小说延续了这种与莱斯利·斯蒂芬、g·e·摩尔和伯特兰·罗素的逻辑斗争的关系,创造了一种富有成效的张力,帮助塑造了《到灯塔去》。
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