Reading Ritual in The Waves
- đ¤ Speaker: Ellie Mitchell, ACD Theatre Cambridge
- đ Date & Time: Tuesday 15 October 2019, 13:00 - 14:30
- đ Venue: Lucy Cavendish College, Lady Margaret Road
Abstract
The Waves was variously described by Woolf as a ‘playpoem’, a ‘mystical poetical novel’ and ‘something struggled for’. This talk reads the novel in the light of Woolf’s interest in the anthropologist Jane Harrison’s theories of classical culture, art and ritual.
Series This talk is part of the Virginia Woolf Talks, Lucy Cavendish College series.
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Tuesday 15 October 2019, 13:00-14:30