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Hellenism and Loss in the Work of Virginia Woolf

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Hellenism and Loss in the Work of Virginia Woolf book

Hellenism and Loss in the Work of Virginia Woolf

DOI link for Hellenism and Loss in the Work of Virginia Woolf

Hellenism and Loss in the Work of Virginia Woolf book

ByTheodore Koulouris
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2011
eBook Published 22 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315586557
Pages 252 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315586557
SubjectsHumanities, Language & Literature
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Koulouris, T. (2011). Hellenism and Loss in the Work of Virginia Woolf. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315586557

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

part 1|54 pages

Loss in the Making

chapter 1|28 pages

On (Greek) Domesticity

chapter 2|24 pages

British Hellenism

part 2|60 pages

The Greekness between Life and Text

chapter 3|22 pages

The Life

chapter 4|36 pages

The Text

part 3|90 pages

Alliances, Dissociations, Syntheses

chapter 5|32 pages

Women of Greece

chapter 6|56 pages

Men and Women of Greece: Synthesis

chapter |4 pages

Afterword

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