On Holy Boughs and Sacred Fools: Virginia Woolf Under the Shadow of Jane Harrison
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/1312
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i6.165
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i6.165
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Andrés Cuevas, Isabel MªDate
2005Abstract
Insofar as the influence of myths and ritualistic practices on Modernist artists becomes evident, this paper explores the still underestimated degree of convergence between Harrison.’s theories, as a direct inheritor of Frazer.’s major postulates, and some of Virginia Woolf.’s fictional works. Indeed, whereas some descriptive outlines of such connection have been carried out, the present analysis aims to reach further by examining the narrator.’s particular form of appropriation .—occasionally through sheer mockery and subversion.— of such traditions, which will undoubtedly shed light on Woolf.’s actual apprehension of the society of her time. En tanto que la influencia de los mitos y prácticas de índole ritual en los artistas del Modernismo resulta innegable, el presente artículo explora el aún infravalorado grado de convergencia entre las teorías de Jane Harrison, directa heredera de los postulados de Frazer, y algunas de las principales obras narrativas de Virginia Woolf. En efecto,...
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Virginia Woolf
Jane Harrison
Escuela ritualista
Expulsión de la muerte
Tiíades
Fiesta de los locos
Rey del haba
Ritualist school
Festival of Fools
King of the Bean