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Religion Around Virginia Woolf

Author : Stephanie Paulsell
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271086262
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Religion Around Virginia Woolf written by Stephanie Paulsell and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf was not a religious person in any traditional sense, yet she lived and worked in an environment rich with religious thought, imagination, and debate. From her agnostic parents to her evangelical grandparents, an aunt who was a Quaker theologian, and her friendship with T. S. Eliot, Woolf’s personal circle was filled with atheists, agnostics, religious scholars, and Christian converts. In this book, Stephanie Paulsell considers how the religious milieu that Woolf inhabited shaped her writing in unexpected and innovative ways. Beginning with the religious forms and ideas that Woolf encountered in her family, friendships, travels, and reading, Paulsell explores the religious contexts of Woolf’s life. She shows that Woolf engaged with religion in many ways, by studying, reading, talking and debating, following controversies, and thinking about the relationship between religion and her own work. Paulsell examines the ideas about God that hover around Woolf’s writings and in the minds of her characters. She also considers how Woolf, drawing from religious language and themes in her novels and in her reflections on the practices of reading and writing, created a literature that did, and continues to do, a particular kind of religious work. A thought-provoking contribution to the literature on Woolf and religion, this book highlights Woolf’s relevance to our post-secular age. In addition to fans of Woolf, scholars and general readers interested in religious and literary studies will especially enjoy Paulsell’s well-researched narrative.

Religion Around Virginia Woolf

Author : Stephanie Paulsell
Publisher : Religion Around
ISBN 13 : 9780271084886
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Religion Around Virginia Woolf written by Stephanie Paulsell and published by Religion Around. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the religious contexts of Virginia Woolf's life and work, her religious practices, her ideas about God, and the new forms of community she imagined.

Religion, Secularism, and the Spiritual Paths of Virginia Woolf

Author : Kristina K. Groover
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030325687
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Secularism, and the Spiritual Paths of Virginia Woolf written by Kristina K. Groover and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion, Secularism, and the Spiritual Paths of Virginia Woolf offers an expansive interdisciplinary study of spirituality in Virginia Woolf's writing, drawing on theology, psychology, geography, history, gender and sexuality studies, and other critical fields. The essays in this collection interrogate conventional approaches to the spiritual, and to Woolf’s work, while contributing to a larger critical reappraisal of modernism, religion, and secularism. While Woolf’s atheism and her sharp criticism of religion have become critical commonplaces, her sometimes withering critique of religion conflicts with what might well be called a religious sensibility in her work. The essays collected here take up a challenge posed by Woolf herself: how to understand her persistent use of religious language, her representation of deeply mysterious human experiences, and her recurrent questions about life's meaning in light of her disparaging attitude toward religion. These essays argue that Woolf's writing reframes and reclaims the spiritual in alternate forms; she strives to find new language for those numinous experiences that remain after the death of God has been pronounced.

Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture

Author : Jane de Gay
Publisher : EUP
ISBN 13 : 9781474454889
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture written by Jane de Gay and published by EUP. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging study demonstrates that Woolf, despite her agnostic upbringing, was profoundly interested in, and knowledgeable about, Christianity as a faith and a socio-political movement. Jane de Gay provides a strongly contextual approach, first revealing the extent of the Christian influences on Woolf's upbringing, including an analysis of the far-reaching influence of the Clapham Sect, and then drawing attention to the importance of Christianity among Woolf's friends and associates. It shows that Woolf's awareness of the ongoing influence of Christian ideas and institutions informed her feminist critique of society in Three Guineas. The book sheds new light on works including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves by revealing her fascination with the clergy, the Madonna, churches and cathedrals; her interest in the Bible as artefact and literary text; and her wrestling with questions about salvation and the nature of God.

Honoring the Body

Author : Stephanie Paulsell
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506454909
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Honoring the Body written by Stephanie Paulsell and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to celebrate your body by attending to daily spiritual practices In Honoring the Body, Stephanie Paulsell speaks to those who have ever wondered how to celebrate the body's pleasures and protect the body's vulnerabilities in a world that seems confused about both. What we need, she shows, are practices that honor the body. Paulsell invites readers to explore how we might honor the body in daily activities--bathing, clothing, eating, working, exercising, loving, and suffering--seeking wisdom from Scripture, history, and contemporary experience, in story and song and poetry. She argues that the accumulated wisdom of religious traditions provides the resources for a rich practice of honoring the body. This practice will not be just an individual practice, however. It will be a shared, communal practice, one we engage in with others. Honoring the Body is for those who want to honor their body and the bodies of others, who wish for a community that cherishes, attends to, celebrates, and soothes the body.

Religion Around Billie Holiday

Author : Tracy Fessenden
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027108720X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Religion Around Billie Holiday written by Tracy Fessenden and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soulful jazz singer Billie Holiday is remembered today for her unique sound, troubled personal history, and a catalogue that includes such resonant songs as “Strange Fruit” and “God Bless the Child.” Holiday and her music were also strongly shaped by religion, often in surprising ways. Religion Around Billie Holiday examines the spiritual and religious forces that left their mark on the performer during her short but influential life. Mixing elements of biography with the history of race and American music, Tracy Fessenden explores the multiple religious influences on Holiday’s life and sound, including her time spent as a child in a Baltimore convent, the echoes of black Southern churches in the blues she encountered in brothels, the secular riffs on ancestral faith in the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, and the Jewish songwriting culture of Tin Pan Alley. Fessenden looks at the vernacular devotions scholars call lived religion—the Catholicism of the streets, the Jewishness of the stage, the Pentecostalism of the roadhouse or the concert arena—alongside more formal religious articulations in institutions, doctrine, and ritual performance. Insightful and compelling, Fessenden’s study brings unexpected materials and archival voices to bear on the shaping of Billie Holiday’s exquisite craft and indelible persona. Religion Around Billie Holiday illuminates the power and durability of religion in the making of an American musical icon.

Religion Around Virginia Woolf

Author : Stephanie Paulsell
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271086246
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Religion Around Virginia Woolf written by Stephanie Paulsell and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf was not a religious person in any traditional sense, yet she lived and worked in an environment rich with religious thought, imagination, and debate. From her agnostic parents to her evangelical grandparents, an aunt who was a Quaker theologian, and her friendship with T. S. Eliot, Woolf’s personal circle was filled with atheists, agnostics, religious scholars, and Christian converts. In this book, Stephanie Paulsell considers how the religious milieu that Woolf inhabited shaped her writing in unexpected and innovative ways. Beginning with the religious forms and ideas that Woolf encountered in her family, friendships, travels, and reading, Paulsell explores the religious contexts of Woolf’s life. She shows that Woolf engaged with religion in many ways, by studying, reading, talking and debating, following controversies, and thinking about the relationship between religion and her own work. Paulsell examines the ideas about God that hover around Woolf’s writings and in the minds of her characters. She also considers how Woolf, drawing from religious language and themes in her novels and in her reflections on the practices of reading and writing, created a literature that did, and continues to do, a particular kind of religious work. A thought-provoking contribution to the literature on Woolf and religion, this book highlights Woolf’s relevance to our post-secular age. In addition to fans of Woolf, scholars and general readers interested in religious and literary studies will especially enjoy Paulsell’s well-researched narrative.

Restless Secularism

Author : Matthew Mutter
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300227965
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Restless Secularism written by Matthew Mutter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly and deeply sensitive study that explores how religion and secularism are tightly interwoven in the major works of modernist literature Matthew Mutter provides a broad survey of modernist literature, examining key works against a background of philosophy, theology, intellectual and social history, while tracing the relationship of modernism’s secular imagination to the religious cultures that both preceded and shaped it. Mutter’s provocative study demonstrates how, despite their explicit desire to purify secular life of its religious residues, Wallace Stevens, Virginia Woolf, and other literary modernists consistently found themselves entangled in the religious legacies they disavowed.

Religion Around Emily Dickinson

Author : W. Clark Gilpin
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027106613X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Religion Around Emily Dickinson written by W. Clark Gilpin and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion Around Emily Dickinson begins with a seeming paradox posed by Dickinson’s posthumously published works: while her poems and letters contain many explicitly religious themes and concepts, throughout her life she resisted joining her local church and rarely attended services. Prompted by this paradox, W. Clark Gilpin proposes, first, that understanding the religious aspect of the surrounding culture enhances our appreciation of Emily Dickinson’s poetry and, second, that her poetry casts light on features of religion in nineteenth-century America that might otherwise escape our attention. Religion, especially Protestant Christianity, was “around” Emily Dickinson not only in explicitly religious practices, literature, architecture, and ideas but also as an embedded influence on normative patterns of social organization in the era, including gender roles, education, and ideals of personal intimacy and fulfillment. Through her poetry, Dickinson imaginatively reshaped this richly textured religious inheritance to create her own personal perspective on what it might mean to be religious in the nineteenth century. The artistry of her poetry and the profundity of her thought have meant that this personal perspective proved to be far more than “merely” personal. Instead, Dickinson’s creative engagement with the religion around her has stimulated and challenged successive generations of readers in the United States and around the world.

Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism

Author : Pam Morris
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474423531
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism written by Pam Morris and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austen and Woolf are materialists, this book argues. 'Things' in their novels give us entry into some of the most contentious issues of the day. This wholly materialist understanding produces worldly realism, an experimental writing practice which asserts egalitarian continuity between people, things and the physical world. This radical redistribution of the importance of material objects and biological existence, challenges the traditional idealist hierarchy of mind over matter that has justified gender, class and race subordination. Entering their writing careers at the critical moments of the French Revolution and the First World War respectively, and sharing a political inheritance of Scottish Enlightenment scepticism, Austen's and Woolf's rigorous critiques of the dangers of mental vision unchecked by facts is more timely than ever in the current world dominated by fundamentalist neo-liberal, religious and nationalist belief systems.

Leonard and Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism

Author : Helen Southworth
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748669213
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Book Synopsis Leonard and Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism by : Helen Southworth

Download or read book Leonard and Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism written by Helen Southworth and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-authored volume focuses on Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press (1917-1941). Scholars from the UK and the US use previously unpublished archival materials and new methodological frameworks to explore the relationships forged by the Woolfs

Woolf: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Kathryn Simpson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472590686
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Woolf: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Kathryn Simpson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf is one of the best-known and most influential modernist writers; an iconic figure, her image and reference to her work and life appear in the most varied of cultural sites. Her writing is, however, in many ways kaleidoscopic and has given rise to a diverse and, sometimes, conflicting body of critical work. Whilst Woolf envisaged that her readers could be 'fellow-worker[s]' in the creative process, there is much to perplex any reader approaching her writing, especially for the first time. Drawing on some of the main critical debates and on Woolf's non-fictional writings, this guide untangles some of the difficulties and perplexities that can prove a barrier to understanding of Woolf's writing. These include aspects of the process of writing (such as narrative techniques, formal structures, characterisation), as well as the thematic concerns so central to Woolf's writing, the cultural context in which it emerged and to recent criticism, including representations of gender and sexuality, class and race.

Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel

Author : Pericles Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521856507
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel written by Pericles Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the development of modernism in the novel in relation to changing attitudes to religion.

The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf

Author : Anne E. Fernald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198811586
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf written by Anne E. Fernald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handbook on Woolf's achievements as an innovative novelist and pioneering feminist theorist. It studies her life, her works, her relationships with other writers, her professional career, and themes in her work including among others feminism, sexuality, education, and class.

Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory

Author : Derek Ryan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748676457
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory written by Derek Ryan and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek Ryan demonstrates how materiality is theorised in Woolf's writings by focusing on the connections she makes between culture and nature, embodiment and environment, human and nonhuman, life and matter.

Between the Acts

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Laurus - Lexecon Kft.
ISBN 13 : 6155643474
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Between the Acts written by Virginia Woolf and published by Laurus - Lexecon Kft.. This book was released on 1988 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart of England, where the villagers are presenting their annual pageant. A lyrical, moving valedictory.

Secularization and Cultural Criticism

Author : Vincent P. Pecora
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226653129
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Secularization and Cultural Criticism written by Vincent P. Pecora and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Secularization and Cultural Criticism' examines the responses of a wide range of thinkers to illustrate exactly why the problem of secularisation in the study of society and culture should matter once again.