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'arrange whatever pieces come your way' : a process-relational reimagining of the works of Virginia Woolf

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Date
16/06/2023
Author
Carver, Katelynn Elizabeth
Supervisor
Hopps, Gavin
Keywords
Virginia Woolf
Alfred North Whitehead
Process metaphysics
Interdisciplinary
Process philosophy
Process theology
Post-secularism
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Abstract
The field of process relational thought, as articulated most foundationally in Alfred North Whitehead’s 1929 monograph Process and Reality, has enjoyed a varied and diverse near-century’s worth of growth across fields of philosophy, theology, and beyond. Its central flexibility as a metaphysical framework characterized by an understanding of process as perpetual becoming allows it to traverse and contradict, in a postsecularly-reflective posture, classically held assumptions about the distinctions between the religious/spiritual and the secular, what it means for something to be sacred or hold a sacral significance, and how the multifaceted modern world interacts with both categories when the lines between them have become less blurred than they are ever-intermingling and in constant flux. From this orienting point, process thought stands as a fertile conversation partner for the literary works of Virginia Woolf, a modernist author whose categorization as “secular” is historically affirmed but for whom, within a postsecular present—and the understandings of cultural movements therein redefined—such a label begs reevaluation. By intentionally bringing process thought to bear upon the works of Woolf—specifically The Waves, To the Lighthouse, and Mrs Dalloway—said reevaluation proceeds in earnest as the parallels and interconnections between the two result in the revelation of novel and generative insights about both Woolf and process relationality alike that add fruitfully to scholarship and inquiry regarding both entities, are poised to inspire future work done in both disciplines, and demonstrate the pursuit of interdisciplinarity as a viable and generative means of rigorous academic inquiry.
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https://doi.org/10.17630/sta/463
Type
Thesis, PhD Doctor of Philosophy
Rights
Embargo Date: 2028-05-11
Embargo Reason: Thesis restricted in accordance with University regulations. Restricted until 11th May 2028
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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/27607

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