La sirena e la strega: Liturgie al femminile nella letteratura
Literature can provide a place to imagine and test creative answers even to such a question as the one concerning women’s role in liturgical life. By the first half of the 20th century, two women writers imagined and narrated about peaceful celebrations of...
| Published in: | Annali di studi religiosi |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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2010
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Annali di studi religiosi
Year: 2010, Volume: 11, Pages: 227-239 |
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| Summary: | Literature can provide a place to imagine and test creative answers even to such a question as the one concerning women’s role in liturgical life. By the first half of the 20th century, two women writers imagined and narrated about peaceful celebrations of life and love, presided by women in a community context. Both Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and Karen Blixen’s Babette’s Feast (1950) tell of a shared meal in a domestic space, describing it from its conception throughout its preparation, up to its final celebration. Woolf and Blixen weave their narrations and sketch their characters in such a way to legitimate a reading closely concerning liturgy: indeed some liturgical key words, such as rituality, time, memory, space, silence, play a pivotal role in both novels. Is it possible, therefore, to consider the two texts as fi ctional accounts of women interpreting the traditional role of host in a liturgical way? And how do Mrs. Dalloway and Babette respectively embody this role? |
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| ISSN: | 2284-3892 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annali di studi religiosi
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