British novelist Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall can be interpreted as a female Bildungsroman. This essay attempts to explore how the protagonist's identity problem is finally resolved through the analysis of...British novelist Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall can be interpreted as a female Bildungsroman. This essay attempts to explore how the protagonist's identity problem is finally resolved through the analysis of the characteristics and elements of female Bildungsroman as reflected in TheWaterfall.展开更多
Lefebvre’s triadic process consists of the relationship between“spatial practice”,“representations of space”,and“representational spaces”.This spatial triad as a unity describes how space is produced within soc...Lefebvre’s triadic process consists of the relationship between“spatial practice”,“representations of space”,and“representational spaces”.This spatial triad as a unity describes how space is produced within society.Interestingly,Lefebvre’s space is closely related to the process of Jewish youth’s growing up when we put Lefebvre’s triad into American-Jewish Bildungsroman,in which spatial practice is related to the repetitive routines of everyday places and private life,and it is,in a large sense,an abstract process linking to the complicated relationships of ethnicity,gender,class,etc.,while representations of space are the“real”lived space and representational spaces are a metaphorical and symbolic one,which is similar to Foucault’s space of power,under the function of which the Jewish protagonist goes gradually and paradoxically into the subject.展开更多
文摘British novelist Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall can be interpreted as a female Bildungsroman. This essay attempts to explore how the protagonist's identity problem is finally resolved through the analysis of the characteristics and elements of female Bildungsroman as reflected in TheWaterfall.
基金funded by Project:“Research on E.L.Doctorow’s Political Novels”(18YBA340)sponsored by Hunan Social Science Fund of China.
文摘Lefebvre’s triadic process consists of the relationship between“spatial practice”,“representations of space”,and“representational spaces”.This spatial triad as a unity describes how space is produced within society.Interestingly,Lefebvre’s space is closely related to the process of Jewish youth’s growing up when we put Lefebvre’s triad into American-Jewish Bildungsroman,in which spatial practice is related to the repetitive routines of everyday places and private life,and it is,in a large sense,an abstract process linking to the complicated relationships of ethnicity,gender,class,etc.,while representations of space are the“real”lived space and representational spaces are a metaphorical and symbolic one,which is similar to Foucault’s space of power,under the function of which the Jewish protagonist goes gradually and paradoxically into the subject.
