Resonating across generations

Virginia Woolf and literary crossover logic

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This article explores how Virginia Woolf’s literary works and her persona have been reimagined in children’s literature and culture. It analyzes five key categories of texts: intergenerational collaborations, fiction adapted into picturebooks, biographies (which are divided into metaphorical picturebooks and graphic biographies), essay adapted into picturebook, and illustrated repackaging of canonical works. The study argues that, although these texts primarily target a younger audience, they employ a crossover approach that blurs the lines between age, genre, and target audience. These reconfigurations, marked by metaphor, visual hybridity, and multimodal storytelling, suggest that children’s literature serves as a generative field where Woolf's modernist princi