Virginia Woolfs Greek Tragedy

Download Virginia Woolfs Greek Tragedy full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Virginia Woolfs Greek Tragedy ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy

Author : Nancy Worman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474277810
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy by : Nancy Worman

Download or read book Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy written by Nancy Worman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Woolf's writings Greece and Greek tragedy in particular shape an exoticized aesthetic space that both emerges from and enables critique of the cosy settings and colonialist conceits of elite (and largely male) British attitudes toward culture and politics. Rather than highlighting Woolf's exclusion from male intellectual purviews, as so many scholars have emphasized, this book urges attention on how her engagements with Greek tragedy both collude with and challenge modernist aesthetics and contemporary politics. Woolf's encounters with and uses of Greek tragedy fantasize an alternative perceptual capacity that correlates to feminine (and feminist) modes, which are depicted in her writings as alternately defiant and choral. In this scheme, Greek tragedy is something of a dreamland, the mysterious dynamics of which Woolf treats as transcending cultural attitudes that hinge upon imperialist adventuring and violence. As scholars have recognized, especially in recent decades, the exoticizing gestures central to the work of so many modernists have uncomfortable political underpinnings, since they frequently inhabit imperialist and colonialist perspectives while appearing to critique them. Unlike most scholars, Nancy Worman argues that Woolf is no exception, although the feminism and humour that inflects so many "Greek" elements in her work saves it from the worst offenses.

Ladies' Greek

Author : Yopie Prins
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691141894
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Ladies' Greek by : Yopie Prins

Download or read book Ladies' Greek written by Yopie Prins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ladies' Greek, Yopie Prins illuminates a culture of female classical literacy that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century, during the formation of women's colleges on both sides of the Atlantic. Why did Victorian women of letters desire to learn ancient Greek, a "dead" language written in a strange alphabet and no longer spoken? In the words of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, they wrote "some Greek upon the margin—lady's Greek, without the accents." Yet in the margins of classical scholarship they discovered other ways of knowing, and not knowing, Greek. Mediating between professional philology and the popularization of classics, these passionate amateurs became an important medium for classical transmission. Combining archival research on the entry of women into Greek studies in Victorian England and America with a literary interest in their translations of Greek tragedy, Prins demonstrates how women turned to this genre to perform a passion for ancient Greek, full of eros and pathos. She focuses on five tragedies—Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Electra, Hippolytus, and The Bacchae—to analyze a wide range of translational practices by women and to explore the ongoing legacy of Ladies' Greek. Key figures in this story include Barrett Browning and Virginia Woolf, Janet Case and Jane Harrison, Edith Hamilton and Eva Palmer, and A. Mary F. Robinson and H.D. The book also features numerous illustrations, including photographs of early performances of Greek tragedy at women's colleges. The first comparative study of Anglo-American Hellenism, Ladies' Greek opens up new perspectives in transatlantic Victorian studies and the study of classical reception, translation, and gender.

Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy

Author : Nancy Worman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474277802
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy by : Nancy Worman

Virginia Woolf and the Visible World

Author : Emily Dalgarno
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521033602
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (336 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Virginia Woolf and the Visible World by : Emily Dalgarno

Download or read book Virginia Woolf and the Visible World written by Emily Dalgarno and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dalgarno examines Woolf's engagement with notions of the visible.

Hellenism and Loss in the Work of Virginia Woolf

Author : Theodore Koulouris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317122682
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Hellenism and Loss in the Work of Virginia Woolf by : Theodore Koulouris

Download or read book Hellenism and Loss in the Work of Virginia Woolf written by Theodore Koulouris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking up Virginia Woolf's fascination with Greek literature and culture, this book explores her engagement with the nineteenth-century phenomenon of British Hellenism and her transformation of that multifaceted socio-cultural and political reality into a particular textual aesthetic, which Theodore Koulouris defines as 'Greekness.' Woolf was a lifelong student of Greek, but from 1907 to1909 she kept notes on her Greek readings in the Greek Notebook, an obscure and largely unexamined manuscript that contains her analyses of a number of canonical Greek texts, including Plato's Symposium, Homer's Odyssey, and Euripides' Ion. Koulouris's examination of this manuscript uncovers crucial insights into the early development of Woolf's narrative styles and helps establish the link between Greekness and loss. Woolf's 'Greekness,' Koulouris argues, enabled her to navigate male and female appropriations of British Hellenism and provided her with a means of articulating loss, whether it be loss of a great Hellenic past, women's vocality, immediate family members, or human civilization during the formative decades of the twentieth century. In drawing attention to the centrality of Woolf's early Greek studies for the elegiac quality of her writing, Koulouris maps a new theoretical terrain that involves reassessing long-established views on Woolf and the Greeks.

Freudian Mythologies

Author : Rachel Bowlby
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191533661
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Freudian Mythologies by : Rachel Bowlby

Download or read book Freudian Mythologies written by Rachel Bowlby and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a hundred years ago, Freud made a new mythology by revising an old one: Oedipus, in Sophocles' tragedy the legendary perpetrator of shocking crimes, was an Everyman whose story of incest and parricide represented the fulfilment of universal and long forgotten childhood wishes. The Oedipus complex - child, mother, father - suited the nuclear families of the mid-twentieth century. But a century after the arrival of the psychoanalytic Oedipus, it might seem that modern lives are very much changed. Typical family formations and norms of sexual attachment are changing, while the conditions of sexual difference, both biologically and socially, have undergone far-reaching modifications. Today, it is possible to choose and live subjective stories that the first psychoanalytic patients could only dream of. Different troubles and enjoyments are speakable and unspeakable; different selves are rejected, discovered, or sought. Many kinds of hitherto unrepresented or unrepresentable identity have entered into the ordinary surrounding stories through which children and adults find their bearings in the world, while others have become obsolete. Biographical narratives that would previously have seemed unthinkable or incredible—'a likely story!'—have acquired the straightforward plausibility of a likely story. This book takes two Freudian routes to think about some of the present entanglements of identity. First, it follows Freud in returning to Greek tragedies - Oedipus and others - which may now appear strikingly different in the light of today's issues of family and sexuality. And second, it re-examines Freud's own theories from these newer perspectives, drawing out different strands of his stories of how children develop and how people change (or don't). Both kinds of mythology, the classical and the theoretical, may now, in their difference, illuminate some of the forming stories of our contemporary world of serial families, multiple sexualities, and new reproductive technologies.

On Not Knowing Greek

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : On
ISBN 13 : 9781843916055
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (16 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis On Not Knowing Greek by : Virginia Woolf

Download or read book On Not Knowing Greek written by Virginia Woolf and published by On. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Taken from the two volumes of The Common Reader, Virginia Woolf's celebrated essay collection, the pieces presented here were expressly intended for the enjoyment of those who read for pleasure, rather than for professional critics. Casting her expert eye over Greek tragedy, Elizabethan theatre and - particularly pertinently for a pioneer of modernism - modern fiction, Woolf enlivens her subject matter and brings to it the profundity and idiosyncrasy associated with the author of Orlando and A Room of One's Own." "As erudite as it is sympathetic, On Not Knowing Greek is a perceptive and exacting guide to reading books from one of the foremost writers of the modernist movement."--BOOK JACKET.

Tragic Bodies

Author : Nancy Worman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350124397
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Tragic Bodies by : Nancy Worman

Download or read book Tragic Bodies written by Nancy Worman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *** Winner of the PROSE Award (2022) for Classics *** This book argues for a new way of reading tragedy that attends to how bodies in the ancient plays pivot between subject and object, person and thing, living and dead, and so serve as vehicles for confronting the edges of the human. At the same time, it explores the ways in which Greek tragedy pulls up close to human bodies, examining their physical edges, their surfaces and parts, their coverings or nakedness, and their postures and orientations. Drawing on and advancing the latest interplays of posthumanism and materialism in relation to classical literature, Nancy Worman shows how this tragic enactment may seem to emphasize the human body, but in effect does something quite different. Greek drama instead often treats the body as a thing that has the status and implications associated with other objects, such as a cloak, an urn, or a toy for a dog. Tragic Bodies urges attention to key scenes in Greek tragedy that foreground bodily identifiers as semiotic materializing. This occurs when signs with weighty symbolic resonance distil out on the dramatic stage as concrete sites for contention and conflation orchestrated through proximity, contact, and sensory dynamics. Reading the dramatic script in this way pursues the felt knowledge at the body's edges that tragic representation affords, a consideration attuned to how bodies register at tragedy's unique intersections – where directive and figurative language combine to highlight visual, tactile, and aural details.

Virginia Woolf's Mythic Method

Author : Amy C Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814215135
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (151 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Virginia Woolf's Mythic Method by : Amy C Smith

Download or read book Virginia Woolf's Mythic Method written by Amy C Smith and published by . This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinvigorates modernist analysis of myth in Virginia Woolf's fiction by illuminating Woolf's use of parataxis to engage both myth and contemporary social and political issues.

A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology

Author : Vanda Zajko
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444339605
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology by : Vanda Zajko

Download or read book A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology written by Vanda Zajko and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology presents a collection of essays that explore a wide variety of aspects of Greek and Roman myths and their critical reception from antiquity to the present day. Reveals the importance of mythography to the survival, dissemination, and popularization of classical myth from the ancient world to the present day Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance Offers a series of carefully selected in-depth readings, including both popular and less well-known examples

Virginia Woolf, Europe, and Peace

Author : Ariane Mildenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949979350
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (793 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Virginia Woolf, Europe, and Peace by : Ariane Mildenberg

Download or read book Virginia Woolf, Europe, and Peace written by Ariane Mildenberg and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf, Europe, and Peace: Transnational Circulations enlarges our understanding of Virginia Woolf's pacifist ideology and aesthetic response to the European wars by re-examining her writings and cultural contexts transnationally and comparatively through the complex interplay between modernism, politics, and aesthetics. The "transnational" paradigm that undergirds the book revolves around the idea of cosmopolitan cultural communities of writers, artists, and musicians worldwide who were intellectually involved in the war effort through the forging of pacifist cultural networks that arose as a form of resistance to war, militarism, and the rise of fascism. The essays presented in this volume engage with this type of mobile and circulatory pacifisms, calling attention to the intersections of modernist inquiries across the arts (art, music, literature, and performance) and transnational critical spaces (Asia, Europe, and the Americas) to show how the convergence of different cultural and linguistic horizons can significantly expand and enrich our understanding of Woolf's modernist legacy.

Virginia Woolf and Heritage

Author : Jane De Gay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1942954425
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (429 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Virginia Woolf and Heritage by : Jane De Gay

Download or read book Virginia Woolf and Heritage written by Jane De Gay and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf was deeply interested in the past - whether literary, intellectual, cultural, political or social - and her writings interrogate it repeatedly. She was also a great tourist and explorer of heritage sites in England and abroad. This book brings together an international team ofworld-class scholars to explore how Woolf engaged with heritage, how she understood and represented it, and how she has been represented by the heritage industry.

A Room of One's Own

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9356843384
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (568 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Room of One's Own by : Virginia Woolf

Download or read book A Room of One's Own written by Virginia Woolf and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Room of One’s Own is an essay written by Virginia Woolf. It was published in 1929 and is based on two lectures given by the author in 1928 at two colleges for women at Cambridge. In this famous essay, Woolf addressed the status of women, and women artists in particular. In this essay, the author also asserts that a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write. According to Woolf, women’s creativity has been curtailed due to centuries of prejudice and financial and educational disadvantages. To emphasize her view, she offers the example of an imaginary gifted but uneducated sister of William Shakespeare, who, discouraged from all eventually kills herself. Woolf celebrates the work of women who have overcome that tradition and become writers, including Jane Austen, George Eliot, and the Brontë sisters, Anne, Charlotte, and Emily. In the final section Woolf suggests that great minds are neutral and argues that intellectual freedom requires financial freedom. The author entreats her audience to write not only fiction but poetry, criticism, and scholarly works as well.

Tragedy and the Modernist Novel

Author : Manya Lempert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108853242
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Tragedy and the Modernist Novel by : Manya Lempert

Download or read book Tragedy and the Modernist Novel written by Manya Lempert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of tragic fiction in European modernism brings together novelists who espoused, in their view, a Greek vision of tragedy and a Darwinian vision of nature. To their minds, both tragedy and natural history disclosed unwarranted suffering at the center of life. Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Albert Camus, and Samuel Beckett broke with entrenched philosophical and scientific traditions that sought to exclude chance, undeserved pains from tragedy and evolutionary biology. Tragedy and the Modernist Novel uncovers a temporality central to tragic novels' structure and ethics: that of the moment. These authors made novelistic plot the delivery system for lethal natural and historical forces, and then countered such plot with moments of protest - characters' fleeting dissent against unjustifiable harms.

On Being Ill

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819580910
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis On Being Ill by : Virginia Woolf

Download or read book On Being Ill written by Virginia Woolf and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf’s daring essay on how illness transforms our perception, plus an essay by Woolf’s mother from the caregiver’s perspective: “Revelatory.” —Booklist This new publication of “On Being Ill” with “Notes from Sick Rooms” presents Virginia Woolf and her mother, Julia Stephen, in textual conversation for the first time in literary history. In the poignant and humorous essay “On Being Ill,” Woolf observes that though illness is part of every human being’s experience, it is not celebrated as a subject of great literature in the way that love and war are embraced by writers and readers. We must, Woolf says, invent a new language to describe pain. Illness, she observes, enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness; it is “the great confessional.” Woolf discusses the taboos associated with illness, and she explores how it changes our relationship to the world around us. “Notes from Sick Rooms,” meanwhile, addresses illness from the caregiver’s perspective. With clarity, humor, and pathos, Julia Stephen offers concrete information that remains useful to nurses and caregivers today. This edition also includes an introduction to “Notes from Sick Rooms” by Mark Hussey, founding editor of Woolf Studies Annual, and a poignant afterword by Rita Charon, MD, founder of the field of Narrative Medicine. In addition, Hermione Lee’s brilliant introduction to “On Being Ill” offers a superb overview of Woolf’s life and writing. “Woolf’s inquiry into illness and its impact on the mind is paired with her mother’s observations about caring for the body. Julia Stephen . . . had no professional training but took to heart Florence Nightingale’s precept that every woman is a nurse and emulated Nightingale’s best-selling Notes on Nursing with her own “Notes from Sick Rooms.” In this long-overlooked, precise, and piquant little manual, Stephen is compassionate and ironic, observing that everyone deserves to be tenderly nursed while addressing the small evil of crumbs in bed. This unprecedented literary reunion of mother and daughter is stunning on many fronts, but physician and literary scholar Rita Charon focuses on the essentials in her astute afterword, writing that Woolf’s perspective as a patient and Stephen’s as a nurse together illuminate the goal of care—to listen, to recognize, to imagine, to honor.” —Booklist “Woolf and Stephen will certainly change the way readers think of illness.” —Publishers Weekly

To the Lighthouse

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504083865
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis To the Lighthouse by : Virginia Woolf

Download or read book To the Lighthouse written by Virginia Woolf and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark work of modernist literature explores the inner lives of a typical English family while vividly exploring the nature of loss and memory. Following her celebrated masterpiece Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf continues to develop her groundbreaking stream-of-consciousness technique in To the Lighthouse. Every summer, the Ramsey family returns to the Isle of Skye for a tranquil holiday, where the imposing lighthouse seems to promise everlasting constancy. But as their idyllic holiday confronts the realities of World War I, the Ramseys must also face the inescapable nature of change. A profound evocation of marriage, parenthood, aging, and grief, To the Lighthouse is regarded as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

The Cambridge Companion to Homer

Author : Robert Louis Fowler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521012461
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (124 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Homer by : Robert Louis Fowler

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Homer written by Robert Louis Fowler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-14 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Homer is a guide to the essential aspects of Homeric criticism and scholarship, including the reception of the poems in ancient and modern times. Written by an international team of scholars, it is intended to be the first port of call for students at all levels, with introductions to important subjects and suggestions for further exploration. Alongside traditional topics like the Homeric Question, the divine apparatus of the poems, the formulae, the characters and the archaeological background, there are detailed discussions of similes, speeches, the poet as story-teller and the genre of epic both within Greece and worldwide. The reception chapters include assessments of ancient Greek and Roman readings as well as selected modern interpretations from the eighteenth century to the present day. Chapters on Homer in English translation and Homer in the history of ideas round out the collection.