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Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy

Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy Contemporary literature

Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy

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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.
Product details
Number of Pages:
166
Release Date:
2018-11-01
Publication Date:
2018-11-01
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1474277829
ISBN13:
9781474277822
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
420 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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