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A Room Of One's Own

Posted on:2007-05-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R YuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360185460766Subject:Literature and art
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Virginia Woolf is the first female writer who debated and established the aim for feminist literature . As the first person who introduced feminist thoughts into literary criticism , Woolf not only poured the consciousness, the emotion and the thoughts of opposing patriarch into literary criticism , but also changed the customary way of criticism discourse . Thus she provided another possibility for the theory writing , which highlight feminist thoughts in completely different voice. As the feminist classic essay ,A room of one's own not only contains feminist thoughts ,but also embody a kind of feminist criticism mode that was different from patriarchal criticism . Firstly , Woolf was different from male criticism on criticism discourse pattern . She actively practiced writing criticism articles in literary style in order to change criticism discourse pattern , which impact the hidden logic and patriarchal order . In her A room of one's own , she combined criticism, analysis, appreciation and account into a whole and integrated prose calligraphy, arts of fiction to create a new type of criticism style. This article is full of various metaphor , which come to being an integrity disourse network . From the title , show , the characters , locations , scenes to events , images have constituted a metaphors network , in which they not only have inspective meanings but also have interaction and mutual enrichment . Woolf highlighted female identity in use of subject , when she was building the room . She firstly call I as discourse subject instead of using us , which imply she was not willing to introduce monologue authority into feminism literary and do in patriarchal principle of eliminating individuals. At the same time , Woolf designed dialogue between different historical women , introducing the main interrelation . Initially Marys later become my interlocutors . The "I" not only represents women in different historical periods , but also remains the female personality in various periods . When Woolf reconstructed the female , she has not remove the male . She breaks through the thoughts of sexes opposition and present Androgyny as criticism discourse standards . Androgyny is presented in the premise of acknowledging sex difference . Androgyny contains feminism discourse and breaks though sexes difference . Androgyny makes us see the future of female literature . Woolf built...
Keywords/Search Tags:Virginia Woolf, Feminist discourse, Feminist criticism pattern, Feminist criticism subject, Androgyny
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