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Folded in this triple melody : intercorporeality in the work of Virginia Woolf
Thesis (PhD (English Literature))--University of Pretoria, 2022.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/89009 Folded in this triple melody : intercorporeality in the work of Virginia Woolf Medalie, David marieke.krynauw@gmail.com Krynauw, Marieke UCTD Virginia Woolf Maurice Merleau-Ponty Intercorporeality Embodiment Phenomenology Modernist literature Thesis (PhD (English Literature))--University of Pretoria, 2022. This thesis explores representations of intercorporeality in a selection of Virginia Woolf’s fiction and non-fiction, in conversation with Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s writings on phenomenology and ontology. This study offers a counter to readings of Woolf as a writer who prioritises interiority, and instead considers underlying patterns of relationality that are grounded in embodied experience. I discuss three main areas of focus: visual perception in an interpersonal world, the grounding of artistic creation in an openness to the human and nonhuman world, and an intercorporeal relationality expressed through narrative and textual kinships. The study provides a brief overview of connections which may be drawn between Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy and Woolf’s writing in Chapter 1. The main spheres of discussion are then investigated in three further chapters: through close readings of some of Woolf’s short stories and Mrs Dalloway alongside Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception (Chapter 2); both writers’ essays on aesthetics and Lily Briscoe and Mrs Ramsay’s relationships with each other and the environments they inhabit in To the Lighthouse (Chapter 3); and finally, Merleau-Ponty’s The Visible and the Invisible and Woolf’s The Waves (Chapter 4). Although the chapters of this study are delimited by textual focus, they trace an evolution and gradual intensification of the three thematic threads. In doing so, I highlight an enduring interest in the conceptualisation of intercorporeality as an open and evolving interweaving of perception and expression that may enable an ethical framework celebrating a simultaneous unity and difference of all beings. UP Doctoral Research Bursary English PhD (English Literature) Unrestricted 2023-01-30T06:49:32Z 2023-01-30T06:49:32Z 2023-04 2022 Thesis * A2023 https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/89009 Declaration letter submitted en © 2022 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Virginia Woolf Maurice Merleau-Ponty Intercorporeality Embodiment Phenomenology Modernist literature Folded in this triple melody : intercorporeality in the work of Virginia Woolf |
| title | Folded in this triple melody : intercorporeality in the work of Virginia Woolf |
| title_full | Folded in this triple melody : intercorporeality in the work of Virginia Woolf |
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| title_short | Folded in this triple melody : intercorporeality in the work of Virginia Woolf |
| title_sort | folded in this triple melody intercorporeality in the work of virginia woolf |
| topic | UCTD Virginia Woolf Maurice Merleau-Ponty Intercorporeality Embodiment Phenomenology Modernist literature |
| url | https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/89009 |