"Writing to a rhythm and not to a plot": Virginia Woolf and the subject of rhythm

As Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature at Oxford University, Laura Marcus holds one of the most distinguished positions in English literary studies in the U.K. Her interests range from the literature of “high” modernists such as Virginia Woolf and Rebecca West to literary and political feminism to cinema studies and the intellectual history of psychoanalysis. This lecture draws on her current work on the experience and culture of rhythm in different historical locations.