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Ritual, Myth and the Modernist Text

Author : Martha C. Carpentier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134389507
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Ritual, Myth and the Modernist Text written by Martha C. Carpentier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Volume 12 in the Library of Anthropology series. This text traces the influence of Jane Ellen Harrison, a brilliant classicist and one of the 'Cambridge Anthropologists' on Jams Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf. Decade of critical over-emphasis on Sir James Frazer's influence on modernism have obscured the more important contributions of Harrison, who explored the chthonic Greek matriarchal cults prior to patriarchal Olympianism and originated the 'ritual theory', finding the origins of Greek drama- and ultimately of all art, in religious ritual. Harrison's images of matriarchal divinity and the feminist principles they embodied inspired these modernist writers to envision the young artist reborn as creator through symbolic union with the semiotic body.

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)

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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.

In the Mirror of the Past

Author : Tomasz Ratajczak
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443867675
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book In the Mirror of the Past written by Tomasz Ratajczak and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These days, we are ever more often confronted by overwhelming events. Searching for a way to understand them, we turn to mythic archetypes still present in our culture. The authors of these essays pose questions about the reliability of the archetypes found in tradition, history, and scattered mythologemes. The essays in this collection deal with the presence of mythic time in modern speculative fiction, such as fantasy and alternate histories, and discuss major mythologemes and their functions in popular literature and extra-literary reality. The authors show how mythopoeic fiction becomes a (genetically) modified mythic mirror in which we hope to see answers to vexing questions, or just a reality superior to the ordinary one. In the Mirror of the Past: Of Fantasy and History is a collection of seven essays by American and Polish authors, including Brian Attebery, Terri Doughty, and Marek Oziewicz, with Mircea Eliade’s concept of “return from history to History” as their underlying theme.

Virginia Woolf in Context

Author : Bryony Randall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110700361X
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf in Context written by Bryony Randall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a wide range of historical, theoretical, critical and cultural contexts, this collection studies key issues in contemporary Woolf studies.

Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain

Author : M. Sterenberg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137354976
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Book Synopsis Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain by : M. Sterenberg

Download or read book Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain written by M. Sterenberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A variety of thinkers used the concept of myth to articulate their anxieties about modernity. By telling the story of mythic thinking in Britain from its origins in Victorian social anthropology to its postwar cultural mainstreaming, this book reveals a yearning for transcendence in an age long assumed to be disenchanted.

British Fiction and Cross-Cultural Encounters

Author : C. Snyder
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137039477
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book British Fiction and Cross-Cultural Encounters written by C. Snyder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals that British modernists read widely in anthropology and ethnography, sometimes conducted their own 'fieldwork', and thematized the challenges of cultural encounters in their fiction, letters, and essays.

Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources

Author : Jonathan Ullyot
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350260223
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources written by Jonathan Ullyot and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses Ezra Pound's The Cantos as a lens to understand modernism's ambition to revolutionize literature through mythical and scientific methods. Homer's Odyssey plays a unique methodological and structural role in The Cantos. The Cantos translates, interprets, abridges, adapts, critiques, parodies, trivializes, allegorizes, and “ritualizes” the Odyssey. Partly inspired by Joyce's use of different literary styles or “technics” in Ulysses, and partly inspired by medieval classicism and 19th century philology, Pound uses a plethora of methods to translate Homer and other classical texts. This book argues that The Cantos is a modernist vision of the Matter of Troy, a term used by medieval authors to designate the cycle of texts based on the Trojan war and its aftereffects, including the nostoi (returns) of the Greek heroes. This is the first study to explore how medieval classicism and translation informs Pound's mythical method and to systematically outline the variety and evolution of Pound's Odyssey translations in The Cantos.

Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts

Author : Maggie Humm
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 074863553X
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts written by Maggie Humm and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts is the most authoritative and up-to-date guide to Virginia Woolf's artistic influences and associations. In original, extensive and newly researched chapters by internationally recognised authors, the Companion explores Woolf's ideas about creativity and the nature of art in the context of the recent 'turn to the visual' in modernist studies with its focus on visual technologies and the significance of material production. The in-depth chapters place Woolf's work in relation to the most influential aesthetic theories and artistic practices, including Bloomsbury aesthetics, art and race, Vanessa Bell and painting, art galleries, theatre, music, dance, fashion, entertaining, garden and book design, broadcasting, film, and photography. No previous book concerned with Woolf and the arts has been so wide ranging or has paid such close attention to both public and domestic art forms.Illustrated with 16 olour as well as 39 black and white illustrations and with guides to further reading, the Companion will be an essential reference work for scholars, students and the general public.Key Features* An essential reference tool for all those working on or interested in Virginia Woolf, the arts, visual culture and modernist studies* Provides a new intellectual framework for the exciting discoveries of the past decades*Draws on archival and historical research into Virginia Woolf's manuscripts and her Bloomsbury milieu*Original chapters from expert contributors newly commissioned by Maggie Humm, widely known for her important work on Virginia Woolf and visual culture*Combines broad synthesis and original reflection setting Woolf's work in historical, cultural and artistic contexts

Religion and Aesthetic Experience in Joyce and Yeats

Author : T. Balinisteanu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137434775
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Book Synopsis Religion and Aesthetic Experience in Joyce and Yeats by : T. Balinisteanu

Download or read book Religion and Aesthetic Experience in Joyce and Yeats written by T. Balinisteanu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is based on archival research and close readings of James Joyce's and W. B. Yeats's poetics and political aesthetics. Georges Sorel's theory of social myth is used as a starting point for exploring the ways in which the experience of art can be seen as a form of religious experience.

Love and Russian Literature

Author : Ira B. Nadel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350115029
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Love and Russian Literature written by Ira B. Nadel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism. In this new book, Ira Nadel, charts the story of that influence through the work of some of the key figures in British literature across the century, including Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Jane Harrison, Virginia Woolf, and H.G. Wells. Framed by the story of two romantic encounters, between Walter Benjamin and the actress Asja Lacis in Moscow in 1926 and between Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova in 1945, Love and Russian Literature casts a vivid new light on the ways in which responses to Russia shaped the history of British modernism.

Women Writers and the Dark Side of Late-Victorian Hellenism

Author : T. Olverson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023024680X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Women Writers and the Dark Side of Late-Victorian Hellenism written by T. Olverson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the appropriation of transgressive, violent female figures from ancient Greek literature and myth by late Victorian writers, Olverson reveals the extent to which ancient antagonists like the murderous Medea and the sinister Circe were employed as a means to protest against and comment upon contemporary social and political institutions.

Aesthetics of Religion

Author : Alexandra K. Grieser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110461013
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics of Religion written by Alexandra K. Grieser and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first English language presentation of the innovative approaches developed in the aesthetics of religion. The chapters present diverse material and detailed analysis on descriptive, methodological and theoretical concepts that together explore the potential of an aesthetic approach for investigating religion as a sensory and mediated practice. In dialogue with, yet different from, other major movements in the field (material culture, anthropology of the senses, for instance), it is the specific intent of this approach to create a framework for understanding the interplay between sensory, cognitive and socio-cultural aspects of world-construction. The volume demonstrates that aesthetics, as a theory of sensory knowledge, offers an elaborate repertoire of concepts that can help to understand religious traditions. These approaches take into account contemporary developments in scientific theories of perception, neuro-aesthetics and cultural studies, highlighting the socio-cultural and political context informing how humans perceive themselves and the world around them. Developing since the 1990s, the aesthetic approach has responded to debates in the study of religion, in particular striving to overcome biased categories that confined religion either to texts and abstract beliefs, or to an indisputable sui generis mode of experience. This volume documents what has been achieved to date, its significance for the study of religion and for interdisciplinary scholarship.

Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy

Author : Nancy Worman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474277810
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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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 196 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.

A Handbook of Modernism Studies

Author : Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118488679
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook of Modernism Studies written by Jean-Michel Rabaté and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the latest research findings and exploring the fascinating interplay of modernist authors and intellectual luminaries, from Beckett and Kafka to Derrida and Adorno, this bold new collection of essays gives students a deeper grasp of key texts in modernist literature. Provides a wealth of fresh perspectives on canonical modernist texts, featuring the latest research data Adopts an original and creative thematic approach to the subject, with concepts such as race, law, gender, class, time, and ideology forming the structure of the collection Explores current and ongoing debates on the links between the aesthetics and praxis of authors and modernist theoreticians Reveals the profound ways in which modernist authors have influenced key thinkers, and vice versa

Sapphic Modernities

Author : L. Doan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403984425
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Sapphic Modernities written by L. Doan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-06-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the representation of the lesbian in modernity from the multiple perspectives of literary, visual and cultural studies, this book shows how the sapphic figure, in her multiple and contradictory guises, refigured and redefined citizenship in the early decades of the twentieth century.

A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture

Author : David Bradshaw
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405154675
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture written by David Bradshaw and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion combines a broad grounding in the essentialtexts and contexts of the modernist movement with the uniqueinsights of scholars whose careers have been devoted to the studyof modernism. An essential resource for students and teachers of modernistliterature and culture Broad in scope and comprehensive in coverage Includes more than 60 contributions from some of the mostdistinguished modernist scholars on both sides of the Atlantic Brings together entries on elements of modernist culture,contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all thegenres of modernist writing and art Features 25 essays on the signal texts of modernist literature,from James Joyce’s Ulysses to Zora NealHurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God Pays close attention to both British and Americanmodernism

The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy

Author : Sara Brill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003809413
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy written by Sara Brill and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy is an essential reference source for cutting-edge scholarship on women, gender, and philosophy in Greek antiquity. The volume features original research that crosses disciplines, offering readers an accessible guide to new methods, new sources, and new questions in the study of ancient Greek philosophy and its multiple afterlives. Comprising 40 chapters from a diverse international group of experts, the Handbook considers questions about women and gender in sources from Greek antiquity spanning the period from 7th c. BCE to 2nd c. BCE, and in receptions of Greek antiquity from the Roman Imperial period, through the European Renaissance to the current day. Chapters are organized into five major sections: I. Early Greek antiquity – including Sappho, Presocratic philosophy, Sophists, and Greek tragedy – 700s–400s BCE II. Classical Greek antiquity – including Aeschines, Plato, and Xenophon – 400s–300s BCE III. Late Classical Greek to Hellenistic antiquity – including Cyrenaics, Cynics, the Hippocratic corpus, and Aristotle – 300s–200s BCE IV. Late Greek antiquity to Roman Imperial period – including Pythagorean women, Stoics, Pyrrhonian Skeptics, and late Platonists – 200s BCE to 700s CE V. Later receptions – including Shakespeare, the European Renaissance, Anna Julia Cooper, W.E.B. DuBois, Jane Harrison, Sarah Kofman, and Toni Morrison The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy is a vital resource for students and scholars in philosophy, Classics, and gender studies who want to gain a deeper understanding of philosophy’s rich past and explore sources and questions beyond the traditional canon. The volume is a valuable resource, as well, for students and scholars from history, humanities, literature, political science, religious studies, rhetorical studies, theatre, and LGBTQ and sexuality studies.