Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-152) and index.
Contents:
Clarissa's Eleusinian desires -- Septimus's Dionysian sacrifice -- Peter Walsh's primitivist Odyssey -- The Goddess in the Lighthouse -- Harmonious discord in Between the Acts.
Summary:
"Through close readings of Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Between the Acts, Smith argues that Virginia Woolf crafts a paratactic mythic method in her fiction that expresses critical views about the role of rational materialism in social structures"-- Provided by publisher.
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