H.D. and modernist religious imagination : mysticism and writing /: mysticism and writing. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• 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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