{"id":953,"date":"2011-01-20T23:36:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T21:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/?p=953"},"modified":"2022-09-26T20:30:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T18:30:07","slug":"hellenism-and-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"Theodore Koulouris \u2013 Woolf\u2019s \u00ab Greekness \u00bb and British Hellenism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Theodore KOULOURIS, <\/strong><strong><em>Hellenism and Loss in the Work of Virginia Woolf<\/em>, Ashgate, 2010.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Taking up Virginia Woolf\u2019s 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 \u2018Greekness.\u2019 Woolf was a lifelong student of Greek, but from 1907 to 1909 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\u2019s Symposium, Homer\u2019s Odyssey, and Euripides\u2019 Ion. Koulouris\u2019s examination of this manuscript uncovers crucial insights into the early development of Woolf\u2019s narrative styles and helps establish the link between Greekness and loss. Woolf\u2019s \u2018Greekness,\u2019 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\u2019s vocality, immediate family members, or human civilization during the formative decades of the twentieth century. In drawing attention to the centrality of Woolf\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Click this link to go to the book\u2019s webpage: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Hellenism-and-Loss-in-the-Work-of-Virginia-Woolf\/Koulouris\/p\/book\/9781138383951\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Hellenism-and-Loss-in-the-Work-of-Virginia-Woolf\/Koulouris\/p\/book\/9781138383951<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking up Virginia Woolf\u2019s 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 \u2018Greekness.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3778,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}