H.D. and modernist religious imagination : mysticism and writing /: mysticism and writing. (2013)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- H.D. and modernist religious imagination : mysticism and writing /: mysticism and writing. (2013)
- Main Title:
- H.D. and modernist religious imagination : mysticism and writing
- Further Information:
- Note: By Elizabeth Anderson.
- Authors:
- Anderson, Elizabeth
- Contents:
- 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.
- Publisher Details:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 811.52
Literary theory
Religion in literature
Holy, The, in literature
Religion and literature
Modernism (Literature)
POETRY -- American -- General
Holy, The, in literature
Modernism (Literature)
Religion and literature
Religion in literature
Literary Criticism -- General
Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory
Literary studies: from c 1900
Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Criticism and interpretation - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781441190895
1441190899 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781441185976
1441185976 - Notes:
- Note: Print version record.
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