Vol. 26 No. 1 (2022): VIRGINIA WOOLF AND JANE AUSTEN: CENTENARY READINGS

The issue of IPOTESI Journal of Literary Studies , vol. 26, no. 1, Jan./Jun. 2022, of the Graduate Program in Modern Languages at Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Minas Gerais, received contributions that establish dialogues between the Woolfian work and the Austenian work, recovering and expanding the readings submitted by the specialized criticism in the celebration of the centenary of the publication of Virginia Woolf's essay entitled “Jane Austen Practising” (1922), whose repercussions still inform possible readings of Austen's work today. Woolf's impressions of Jane Austen's juvenilia collected in the 1922 essay reveal some of the traits that would give Austen an increasingly privileged place in the Woolfian idea of tradition. After all, in this essay, Woolf already states that the writer's voice circumscribes the worlds and characters she creates, clearly delimiting the horizon of female experiences and ironically outlining a laugh that can put this same horizon in tension. Taking part in this year of centenary celebrations of global modernisms, this issue of IPOTESI collects works that thematize the presence of Jane Austen in Woolfian writing — whether in her novels, short stories, essays, diaries, letters, or any other writings — and/or that investigate the relevance of the Austenian legacy for Woolf to frame modernist discussions around tradition and individual talent in another way, through Austen's phrase or “female sentence” that Woolf rescues in A room of one’s own (1929). 

This issue of IPOTESI journal also has the sections "Other Texts" (with articles that are not covered by the topic of the Dossier, but which are relevant in the field of Literary Studies), "Translation", "Interview" and "Creative Writing".

Organizers of this issue: Prof.ª Dr. Nícea Nogueira (UFJF), Prof. Dr. Davi Pinho (UERJ), Professor Dr. Maria Aparecida de Oliveira (UFPB), Professor Dr. Maria Rita Drumond Viana (UFOP/UFSC) and Prof. Dr. Patricia Marouvo Fagundes (UERJ).

Publishing Contributor: Prof.ª Dr. Patricia de Paula Aniceto (UFJF)

Scholarship students: Bruna Montes Werneck de Freitas (PhD student at PPG Letters: Literary Studies - UFJF) and Fernanda Barroso e Silva (PhD student at PPG Letters: Literary Studies - UFJF)

Cover: Lucas Maranhão