[Vwoolf] Mrs. Dalloway question

Sun Jun 11 18:27:49 EDT 2017

Disregard my previous question Stuart. I will look online for that issue.

Lorienne

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Neverow, Vara S. <neverowv1 at southernct.edu>
wrote:

> Thanks so much, Stuart!
>
>
> The essay, "The Old Woman’s Song in *Mrs. Dalloway*" appears in Issue No.
> 17, September 2004 of the *Virginia Woolf Bulletin*.
>
>
> Vara
>
>
> Vara Neverow
> Department of English
> Southern Connecticut State University
> New Haven, CT 06515
> 203-392-6717 <(203)%20392-6717>
> neverowv1 at southernct.edu
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> *From:* Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Pringle,
> Marybeth <marybeth.pringle at wright.edu>
> *Sent:* Sunday, June 11, 2017 5:07 PM
> *To:* Stuart N. Clarke
> *Cc:* vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
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> *Subject:* Re: [Vwoolf] Mrs. Dalloway question
>
> Nice, Vara!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 11, 2017, at 4:29 PM, Stuart N. Clarke <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=>
> .)
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>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Vara
>
>
> Vara Neverow
> Department of English
> Southern Connecticut State University
> New Haven, CT 06515
> 203-392-6717 <(203)%20392-6717>
> neverowv1 at southernct.edu
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> *From:* Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Lorienne E
> Schwenk <singingkitchen at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, June 11, 2017 10:57 AM
> *To:* vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
> *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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