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Why should you read Virginia Woolf? - Iseult Gillespie

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How best can we understand the internal experience of alienation? In both her essays and her fiction, Virginia Woolf shapes the slippery nature of subjective experience into words, while her characters frequently lead inner lives that are deeply at odds with their external existence. Iseult Gillespie helps make sense of these disparities to prepare you for the next time you read Virgina Woolf.

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Meet The Creators

Educator
Iseult Gillespie
Director
Sarah Saidan
Animator
Mai Nguyen, Eve Deroeck
Compositor
Marie Vieillevie
Composer
Stephen LaRosa
Sound Designer
Stephen LaRosa
Associate Producer
Jessica Ruby
Content Producer
Gerta Xhelo
Editorial Producer
Alex Rosenthal
Narrator
Susan Zimmerman

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