《幕间》与伍尔夫对艺术接受的思考

Between the Acts and Woolf's Thinking about Aesthetic Reception

本文结合弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的文论,聚焦她最后一部小说《幕间》,尤其是其中舞台演出这一写作线索,探讨她对读者或称为艺术接受者作用的认识。她在接受者由精英化趋向大众化的时代,将他们作为动态的聚合体看待,强调他们的主体性与能动性,以及与作者和文本的交融关系。本文在展开其对艺术接受的整体性思考的同时,对相关原因进行了分析。

Virginia Woolf wrote in an age when readers grew in number from elites to common people. She, instead of being a literary snob, took them as an active collective public, acknowledging their subjectivity and initiative as well as their communicative relationship with the author and the text. Such ideas are well reflected in her last novel Between the Acts. Based on a detailed textual analysis, following the clue of pageant in the novel, this article tries to show Woolf＇ s holistic thinking about art＇s reception and the underlying reasons.