هلنیسم و فقدان در آثار ویرجینیا وولف

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. Drawing on materials from law, history, and social theory, this book addresses concerns specific to the underserved and understudied population of three million gay and lesbian elders in the United States. Integrating theory with practical questions of policy, and advancing a new understanding of the construction of sexuality and identity, author Nancy J. Knauer advocates meaningful new reforms designed to ensure equity and dignity in aging regardless of sexual orientation. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Acknowledgements 8 List of Abbreviations 10 Introduction 12 Part 1 Loss in the Making 30 1 On (Greek) Domesticity 32 2 British Hellenism 60 Part 2 The Greekness between Life and Text 84 3 The Life 86 4 The Text 108 Part 3 Alliances, Dissociations, Syntheses 144 5 Women of Greece 146 6 Men and Women of Greece: Synthesis 178 Afterword 234 Bibliography 238 Index 250 Loss In The Making -- On (greek) Domesticity -- British Hellenism -- The Greekness Between Life And Text -- The Life -- The Text -- Alliances, Dissociations, Syntheses -- Women Of Greece -- Ladies And Gentlemen In Greek : Synthesis. Theodore Koulouris. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.