The Alchemy of Literary Pilgrimage: Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath || Maria Hrickova || Lecture 2
Expert Lecture Series: Talk – 2 Expert Lecture Series organized by Department of English & CLS, Saurashtra University, Rajkot, India and its Alumni Association under an MoU with Department of English & American Studies, Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra, Slovakia. About the Expert: Dr Maria Hrikova has been working as a lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia since 2005. Her major research interests include life writing, history of English literature, world literature and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of literary texts. In the present talk, Dr Hrikova focuses on the Literary Pilgrimages made by both Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to Howarth, the place connected with Bronte sisters. She studies these visits as a visit to the place, the literary connection that gets relived when a literary writer visits after having read the novels by these sisters and how these visits become a visit to the novelist as a person; especially in the case of Virginia Woolf who visited the place of Bronte sisters after having lost family members and having her mental breakdowns and how she studied the premature deaths of Bronte family viz a viz her own grief and loss. Unlike Woolf, Sylvia Plath visited the place during her happy time with her husband. Dr. Hrikova discusses how Plath who was an ardent follower of Virginia Woolf’s writings visited the place as a homage to both Bronte sisters as well as Woolf. Dr. Hrikova brings forth the connection between their visit to the place and their biographical circumstances and how this visits and the lives of these two writers influenced mutually. She traces this connections through the writings by Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Plath’s husband- Ted Hughes. This talk is being organized under recently signed MoU by the Department of English & CLS, Saurashtra University, Gujarat with Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia. Other academic programs like joint online lectures by the faculty of the two departments, joint webinars, publications, and a semester-level online certificate course for a maximum of 10 students of the two departments will take place in the coming academic terms.
Expert Lecture Series: Talk – 2 Expert Lecture Series organized by Department of English & CLS, Saurashtra University, Rajkot, India and its Alumni Association under an MoU with Department of English & American Studies, Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra, Slovakia. About the Expert: Dr Maria Hrikova has been working as a lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia since 2005. Her major research interests include life writing, history of English literature, world literature and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of literary texts. In the present talk, Dr Hrikova focuses on the Literary Pilgrimages made by both Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to Howarth, the place connected with Bronte sisters. She studies these visits as a visit to the place, the literary connection that gets relived when a literary writer visits after having read the novels by these sisters and how these visits become a visit to the novelist as a person; especially in the case of Virginia Woolf who visited the place of Bronte sisters after having lost family members and having her mental breakdowns and how she studied the premature deaths of Bronte family viz a viz her own grief and loss. Unlike Woolf, Sylvia Plath visited the place during her happy time with her husband. Dr. Hrikova discusses how Plath who was an ardent follower of Virginia Woolf’s writings visited the place as a homage to both Bronte sisters as well as Woolf. Dr. Hrikova brings forth the connection between their visit to the place and their biographical circumstances and how this visits and the lives of these two writers influenced mutually. She traces this connections through the writings by Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Plath’s husband- Ted Hughes. This talk is being organized under recently signed MoU by the Department of English & CLS, Saurashtra University, Gujarat with Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia. Other academic programs like joint online lectures by the faculty of the two departments, joint webinars, publications, and a semester-level online certificate course for a maximum of 10 students of the two departments will take place in the coming academic terms.