This paper studies a short fiction of Virginia Woolf The Mark on the Wall.Woolf held the literary theory "moments of being" and believed that the moments ordinary enough in itself had an extraordinary effect...This paper studies a short fiction of Virginia Woolf The Mark on the Wall.Woolf held the literary theory "moments of being" and believed that the moments ordinary enough in itself had an extraordinary effect on people's imagination.Based on many diaries,essays and fictions of Woolf,and the related literature review,this paper analyzes the "moments of being" represented in The Mark on the Wall.It's is found that the moments of being are truth of being,both the external word and inner world.Woolf catches her mind sparks,seeks the truth and free thinking in each moment during her life.展开更多
Unlike traditional fiction, Virginia Woolf's "The Mark on the Wall" doesn't have lively characters, detailed setting, or intriguing plot. Discarding the traditional narrative mode of zero focalization, the narrato...Unlike traditional fiction, Virginia Woolf's "The Mark on the Wall" doesn't have lively characters, detailed setting, or intriguing plot. Discarding the traditional narrative mode of zero focalization, the narrator adopts a new fixed internal focalization, interwoven with the first person external point of view. By weakening the physical time and space, the narrator tells the story according to her psychological time and space, stressing the moment of importance, through which the writer highlights her subjective reality.展开更多
文摘This paper studies a short fiction of Virginia Woolf The Mark on the Wall.Woolf held the literary theory "moments of being" and believed that the moments ordinary enough in itself had an extraordinary effect on people's imagination.Based on many diaries,essays and fictions of Woolf,and the related literature review,this paper analyzes the "moments of being" represented in The Mark on the Wall.It's is found that the moments of being are truth of being,both the external word and inner world.Woolf catches her mind sparks,seeks the truth and free thinking in each moment during her life.
文摘Unlike traditional fiction, Virginia Woolf's "The Mark on the Wall" doesn't have lively characters, detailed setting, or intriguing plot. Discarding the traditional narrative mode of zero focalization, the narrator adopts a new fixed internal focalization, interwoven with the first person external point of view. By weakening the physical time and space, the narrator tells the story according to her psychological time and space, stressing the moment of importance, through which the writer highlights her subjective reality.