[Vwoolf] Mrs. Dalloway question

[Neverow, Vara S.]

Please ignore the accidental repeat of "em um" before "Place on the table the perfuming heather."


Vara Neverow
Department of English
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
203-392-6717
neverowv1 at southernct.edu


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Hi Lorienne,


It's meant to be almost unintelligible, ancient, evocative. J. Hillis Miller in "Mrs. Dalloway: Repetition as the Raising of the Dead" argues that the passage is derived from Richard Strauss's song "Allerseelen" with the words by Hermann von Glim.


Miller provides a translation of the song, starting with the phrase ee um "Place on the table the perfuming heather" (See Mieke Bal's edited collection Narrative Theory: Special Topics for the rest of the translation at https://books.google.com/books?id=AYMfTq_K7xcC&pg=PA148&dq=ee+um+fah+um+so+foo+swee+too+eem+oo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiI4sWPsrbUAhWF4CYKHabDDAgQ6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q=ee%20um%20fah%20um%20so%20foo%20swee%20too%20eem%20oo&f=false.)


Hope this helps!

Vara


Vara Neverow
Department of English
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
203-392-6717
neverowv1 at southernct.edu


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Friends, I have finally made my book club read Virginia Woolf! We will discuss Mrs. Dalloway tomorrow evening.

Could somebody enlighten me about the Latin-ish sounding "ee um fah um so foo swee too eem oo?"

I don't know if I've ever known what that meant...

Thanks, Lorienne

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