[Vwoolf] Mrs. Dalloway question

Pringle, Marybeth marybeth.pringle at wright.edu
Sun Jun 11 17:07:43 EDT 2017


Nice, Vara!

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On Jun 11, 2017, at 4:29 PM, Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com<mailto:stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>> wrote:

The music (tune) is not necessarily by Strauss.  I have researched and discussed this in a “Virginia Woolf Bulletin”.

Stuart

From: Neverow, Vara S.
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2017 7:20 PM
To: Lorienne E Schwenk ; vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Mrs. Dalloway question


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<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__books.google.com_books-3Fid-3DAYMfTq-5FK7xcC-26pg-3DPA148-26dq-3Dee-2Bum-2Bfah-2Bum-2Bso-2Bfoo-2Bswee-2Btoo-2Beem-2Boo-26hl-3Den-26sa-3DX-26ved-3D0ahUKEwiI4sWPsrbUAhWF4CYKHabDDAgQ6AEILjAB-23v-3Donepage-26q-3Dee-2520um-2520fah-2520um-2520so-2520foo-2520swee-2520too-2520eem-2520oo-26f-3Dfalse&d=DwMF-g&c=3buyMx9JlH1z22L_G5pM28wz_Ru6WjhVHwo-vpeS0Gk&r=fQvPfu7akM4EO8y6eEBbdlqgzN4XXYUX6UZBT0q-M0I&m=HLg6ICaRAuSB7MAOOIoJeAh2XgJiJ06Zl8wBvaT4Vt0&s=cgAx3ACx4mSdB8ii5JEizyR6vWCsNDhVS_f_AvrE4EY&e=>.)


Hope this helps!

Vara



Vara Neverow
Department of English
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
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Subject: [Vwoolf] Mrs. Dalloway question

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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