Virginia Woolf’s seventh novel,The Waves,first published by the Hogarth Press in 1931,is widely regarded as her most experimental piece of writing.The complex and elusive structure of the work,the least representatio...Virginia Woolf’s seventh novel,The Waves,first published by the Hogarth Press in 1931,is widely regarded as her most experimental piece of writing.The complex and elusive structure of the work,the least representational among Woolf’s novels,challenges the reader’s assumptions about the inner and the outer world.In the absence of a substantial story,of a convincing plot and well-defined characters,the reader is called upon to search for a deeper coherence and more profound meanings.Indeed,in The Waves the modernist writer strives for a fresh way of expressing a vision of wholeness in a broken world.The present article attempts to reread Woolf’s self-conscious novel in the double perspective of separation and reunion,of dispersal and recomposition.A close reading of selected passages will show how the poetics of fragmentation and the poetics of wholeness coexist in Woolf’s narrative,pervading the imagery and the symbols of the text.In more than one sense,the dialectic between division and unity,fragmentation and wholeness can be identified as the structuring force of the novel;most tellingly,this textual dynamism is reflected in the oscillatory motion of the waves,continuously breaking and merging.展开更多
According to the relationship between symbol and meaning in semiotics,this paper analyzes the symbolic meaning of the imaginary son and the meaning of killing him in Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,and concl...According to the relationship between symbol and meaning in semiotics,this paper analyzes the symbolic meaning of the imaginary son and the meaning of killing him in Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,and concludes that killing the imaginary son is the only way to escape the bondage of rigid social morality and come back to the reality.展开更多
Virginia Woolf’s feminist ideas revised the traditional masculinized theory and confirmed the value of women themselves and brought feminist literary theory in shape. A Room of One’s Own is the concentrated reflecti...Virginia Woolf’s feminist ideas revised the traditional masculinized theory and confirmed the value of women themselves and brought feminist literary theory in shape. A Room of One’s Own is the concentrated reflection of her feminist ideas .This article tries to analyze the meaning of “a room one’s own” and “five hundred pounds a year” from the perspective of material and spiritual space.展开更多
Jacob's Room is a forerunner of Virginia Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novels.The characterization of the novel is different from the traditional clear-cut presentation.By analyzing some incidents in the nov...Jacob's Room is a forerunner of Virginia Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novels.The characterization of the novel is different from the traditional clear-cut presentation.By analyzing some incidents in the novel,this paper is to illustrate Woolf's understanding of the impediments in truthful and realistic characterization.展开更多
文摘Virginia Woolf’s seventh novel,The Waves,first published by the Hogarth Press in 1931,is widely regarded as her most experimental piece of writing.The complex and elusive structure of the work,the least representational among Woolf’s novels,challenges the reader’s assumptions about the inner and the outer world.In the absence of a substantial story,of a convincing plot and well-defined characters,the reader is called upon to search for a deeper coherence and more profound meanings.Indeed,in The Waves the modernist writer strives for a fresh way of expressing a vision of wholeness in a broken world.The present article attempts to reread Woolf’s self-conscious novel in the double perspective of separation and reunion,of dispersal and recomposition.A close reading of selected passages will show how the poetics of fragmentation and the poetics of wholeness coexist in Woolf’s narrative,pervading the imagery and the symbols of the text.In more than one sense,the dialectic between division and unity,fragmentation and wholeness can be identified as the structuring force of the novel;most tellingly,this textual dynamism is reflected in the oscillatory motion of the waves,continuously breaking and merging.
文摘According to the relationship between symbol and meaning in semiotics,this paper analyzes the symbolic meaning of the imaginary son and the meaning of killing him in Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,and concludes that killing the imaginary son is the only way to escape the bondage of rigid social morality and come back to the reality.
文摘Virginia Woolf’s feminist ideas revised the traditional masculinized theory and confirmed the value of women themselves and brought feminist literary theory in shape. A Room of One’s Own is the concentrated reflection of her feminist ideas .This article tries to analyze the meaning of “a room one’s own” and “five hundred pounds a year” from the perspective of material and spiritual space.
文摘Jacob's Room is a forerunner of Virginia Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novels.The characterization of the novel is different from the traditional clear-cut presentation.By analyzing some incidents in the novel,this paper is to illustrate Woolf's understanding of the impediments in truthful and realistic characterization.
