Marlene Dirschauer

Modernist Waterscapes (eBook, PDF)

Water, Imagination and Materiality in the Works of Virginia Woolf

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Produktbeschreibung

"This deeply thoughtful phenomenological study makes a welcome move from

psychology to poetics in its original and illuminating account of Woolf's

imaginative engagement with 'waterscapes'. Ranging over all the forms of Woolf's

writing, Dirschauer contributes significantly to recent ecocritical readings of

Woolf, beautifully mapping a network which encompasses English Romantic

poets and Woolf's contemporaries."

- Mark Hussey, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Pace University, USA

"In Modernist Waterscapes Marlene Dirschauer has captured the complexity,

fullness, wonder, and fluid power of Woolf's writing....This is a profound and

delightfully illuminating study of Woolf's immersion in the literary past as she

creates radically new aesthetic forms that shape human connections with the

vast web of the biosphere and its natural forces. A necessary new book for

anyone interested in Virginia Woolf."

- Louise Westling, Professor Emerita of English and Environmental Studies at

the University of Oregon, USA

This book identifies water as the key element of Virginia Woolf's modernist

poetics. The various forms, movements, and properties of water inspired Woolf's

writing of reality, time, and bodies and offered her an apt medium to reflect on

the possibilities as well as on the exhaustion of her art. As a deeply intertextual

writer, Woolf recognised how profoundly water has shaped human imagination

and the landscape of the literary past. In line with recent ecocritical and

ecofeminist assessments of her works, this book also shows Woolf's attraction to

water as part of an indifferent nature that exists prior to and beyond the symbolic.

Through close analyses that span the whole of Woolf's oeuvre, and that centre on

the metaphorical and the material voices of water in her works, Modernist

Waterscapes offers a fresh perspective on a writing that is as versatile as the

element from which it draws. The monograph addresses students and scholars

working in modernist studies and Woolf studies in particular.

Marlene Dirschauer holds a PhD in Comparative Literature. Currently, she works

as Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Her research interests

are English modernism as well as religious writings of the early modern era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 221
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783031134210
• Artikelnr.: 67239041

Autorenporträt

Marlene Dirschauer holds a PhD in Comparative Literature. Currently, she works as Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Her research interests are English modernism as well as religious writings of the early modern era.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Virginia Woolf's Modernist Waterscapes.- 2. Aqueous Affinities: Woolf, Bachelard and the English Romantic Poets.- 3. 'How It Floats Me Afresh': Water in Woolf's Early Experimental Fiction.- 4. The Fluid Texture of Time: To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, The Waves.- 5. 'The Obscure Body of the Sea': Female Bodies, Water and Artistic Creation from The Voyage Out to The Waves.- 6. 'Floating Down a River into Silence': Water in Woolf's Later Works.- 7. Conclusion.

Rezensionen

"The book is remarkably detailed and rigorous in its textual analysis. Dirschauer has clearly read widely in Woolf studies and in Woolf's oeuvre, and this study results in a richly layered and compelling argument ... . The breadth, attention, and density of Dirschauer's analyses are impressive. ... Modernist Waterscapes offers much of interest to Woolf scholars and modernist scholars interested in ecocriticism, feminist analysis, and literary history." (Amy Smith, (Amy C. Smith, Woolf Studies Annual, Vol. 30, 2024)

"Marlene Dirschauer's Modernist Waterscapes is one of several recent studies that take on board insights from the Blue Humanities and Ecocriticism, without giving up on the strengths of established formal, stylistic and rhetorical analyses of literary texts. [...] The strength of Dirschauer's study consists not only in such interpretations of Woolf's best-known works but in her engagement with the entire oeuvre, showing the ubiquity and breadth of Woolf's use of water, even in the dryness in Between the Acts expressive of the boundaries of human language. In the online version, the chapters of Modernist Waterscapes are available separately. However, this book is worthwhile reading in its entirety, to discover the whole panorama of Woolf's aquatic universe." (Virginia Richter, Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies, Vol. 34 (3), 2023)

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