[MGSA-L] New book: 'Hellenism and Loss in the Work of Virginia Woolf' by Dr. Theodore Koulouis

[Roland Moore]

A new title is out entitled: 'Hellenism and Loss in the Work of Virginia Woolf' by Dr. Theodore Koulouis

Here is a link to the publishers:

http://www.ashgatepublishing.com/default.aspx?page=637&calctitle=1&pageSubject=3140&title_id=9933&edition_id=13043

There is a 20% discount code if ordering online or by phone: C11ENS20

If colleagues want a hard copy of the voucher, Dr. Koulouris will forward it to them via email. His email addresses are: L.Koulouris at sussex.ac.uk or T.Koulouris at brighton.ac.uk




Book description:
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.