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H.D. and modernist religious imagination : mysticism and writing /
Exploring the intersection of religious sensibility and creativity in the poetry and prose of the American modernist writer, H.D., this volume explores the nexus of the religious, the visionary, the creative and the material. Drawing on original archival research and analyses of newly published and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- FC; Half title; Also available from Bloomsbury; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Visionary Hermeticism; H.D. and Cixous: Mysticism in writing; Texts and contexts; Critical context: Modernist religious imagination; H.D. and Modernist Religious Imagination: Mysticism and Writing; 1 Voices of the Dead: Trauma and spiritualism; Trauma: Testimony and witness; Haunting: Spiritualism, trauma and memory; Conclusion: Haunted hermeneutics; 2 Cloud of Witnesses: Moravian spirituality and intimate communities; Moravian genealogy and history.
- 'Intimate Communion': Circles of belongingThe Gift and the writing cure; Conclusion; 3 Writing as Ritual; Drama and ritual in The Sword Went Out to Sea; Moravian litany in The Gift; Alchemical ritual and Hermeticism in Trilogy; Ritual and language; 4 Image and Difference; Ricoeur: Imagination, metaphor and alterity; Cixous and difference; H.D.'s bees and honey; Conclusion; 5 Writing as Sanctuary; Place and movement in cultural criticism; Fragrant dust: Gardens in Oran; H.D.'s garden in the city; Cixous's Algeriance; H.D.'s expatriatism: Spirals and beelines.
- Writing as sanctuary: Sacred placesThe sanctuary that moves; Conclusion: Nomadic pilgrimage; Conclusion; Ancient Wisdom; Feminist revisioning, imagination and modernism; Bibliography; Index.