Berkeley English Lecturers and Postdocs

Ann Banfield

Ann Banfield

Emeritus

banfield@berkeley.edu


Books
Describing the Unobserved and Other Essays: Unspeakable Sentences After Unspeakable Sentences
Describing the Unobserved and Other Essays: Unspeakable Sentences After Unspeakable Sentences

The seven essays gathered in this volume are all concerned, more or less directly, with the “unspeakable sentences” of fictional narration, that is, the sentences that do not bear any explicit mark nor any implicit indication of a first person and wh....(read more)

The Phantom Table: Woolf, Fry, Russell and the Epistemology of Modernism
The Phantom Table: Woolf, Fry, Russell and the Epistemology of Modernism

This study is a major reappraisal of Virginia Woolf's relationship to Bloomsbury and the aesthetic and philosophical developments of her time. Through extensive archival research, Ann Banfield offers the first full analysis of Woolf's engagement wit....(read more)


Current Research
Professor Banfield also works on Virginia Woolf, the Industrial Novel, and Literature and Philosophy.

English Department Classes

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