These reflections address the disturbing phenomenon of ＂not knowing what to say＂ to someone who has experienced the immediacy of a traumatic event and who, nevertheless, seeks a word of consolation from us to ease t...These reflections address the disturbing phenomenon of ＂not knowing what to say＂ to someone who has experienced the immediacy of a traumatic event and who, nevertheless, seeks a word of consolation from us to ease the suffering. The author addresses the inadequacy of consolation as mere verbiage, and then brings to mind an expanded understanding of discourse-as-comportment to offer the possibility of deep consolation for the suffering other in the groundlessness of the tragic situation, which the author calls ＂abysmal consolation＂. In the realization that discourse is also the embodied consolation of being-with the suffering other in a shattered lifeworld, both sufferer and carer of souling are freed up to meet each other in a place that was heretofore presumed to be an alienated and speechless place.展开更多
The contemplation over existence has always been a major motif in Virginia Woolfs literary creation, in which she struggled with the need to find significance and beauty in the transient living experience. With an int...The contemplation over existence has always been a major motif in Virginia Woolfs literary creation, in which she struggled with the need to find significance and beauty in the transient living experience. With an inter-textual analysis of her renowned novel Mrs. Dalloway, this thesis makes a tentative exploration into the writer＇s consciousness of existence and its influence on the characters＇ personalities and their spirit of life and death, as well as the ultimate understanding of the transparency, fragility and ecstasy of human existence.展开更多
At the end of pioneering age, the women pioneers were substituted by lost ladies from whom the innovation, self-reliance, tolerance and endurance yielded to nihilism, reliant affinity, mammonism and hedonism. To remin...At the end of pioneering age, the women pioneers were substituted by lost ladies from whom the innovation, self-reliance, tolerance and endurance yielded to nihilism, reliant affinity, mammonism and hedonism. To reminisce the glory of pioneering splendors in the integration with the waste west land spiritually and alienation to the materialized modern society, Cather regressed to the memorable bygones in"The Best Years", The Professor's House and elegized the spiritual pioneering by means of infusing Christianity into the uncultivated indigenous inhabitants in Death Comes for the Archbishop.展开更多
文摘These reflections address the disturbing phenomenon of ＂not knowing what to say＂ to someone who has experienced the immediacy of a traumatic event and who, nevertheless, seeks a word of consolation from us to ease the suffering. The author addresses the inadequacy of consolation as mere verbiage, and then brings to mind an expanded understanding of discourse-as-comportment to offer the possibility of deep consolation for the suffering other in the groundlessness of the tragic situation, which the author calls ＂abysmal consolation＂. In the realization that discourse is also the embodied consolation of being-with the suffering other in a shattered lifeworld, both sufferer and carer of souling are freed up to meet each other in a place that was heretofore presumed to be an alienated and speechless place.
文摘The contemplation over existence has always been a major motif in Virginia Woolfs literary creation, in which she struggled with the need to find significance and beauty in the transient living experience. With an inter-textual analysis of her renowned novel Mrs. Dalloway, this thesis makes a tentative exploration into the writer＇s consciousness of existence and its influence on the characters＇ personalities and their spirit of life and death, as well as the ultimate understanding of the transparency, fragility and ecstasy of human existence.
文摘At the end of pioneering age, the women pioneers were substituted by lost ladies from whom the innovation, self-reliance, tolerance and endurance yielded to nihilism, reliant affinity, mammonism and hedonism. To reminisce the glory of pioneering splendors in the integration with the waste west land spiritually and alienation to the materialized modern society, Cather regressed to the memorable bygones in"The Best Years", The Professor's House and elegized the spiritual pioneering by means of infusing Christianity into the uncultivated indigenous inhabitants in Death Comes for the Archbishop.
