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The Correspondence Between British Lily And Chinese Narcissus

Posted on:2011-05-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y Y JiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360302497827Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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As the representatives of excellent women writers in contemporary British and Chinese literature history, Virginia Woolf who was born in famous knowledge nobility in British, and Eileen Chang who was born inofficial family in late Qing Dynasty, had both bred in the upstanding culture. In their life, Woolf accepted serial shocks of losing dearest families, while Eileen Chang escaped from the loveless family. And then, they also faced the cruelty of war in the unpeaceful times.As the representatives of stream of consciousness in the West, Virginia Woolf developed greatly in the novel theory, and Impersonalization theory is her unique contribution to the Westen literature theory. When she was expounding and developing Impersonalization theory, Woolf had been practicing it using her literary creation, and developing the state of human and affairs to the thinking of life and being. Although Eileen Chang didn't bring clearly up the Impersonalization theory, through reading her literary works, we can feel abviously the impersonalization trend exposed in her works, which corresponds with Impersonalization theory raised by Woolf.In the term of "narrative impersonalization ", both Woolf and Eileen Chang used some narrative techniques to achieve their hidden narrative purpose; and in the term of "character impersonalization ", these two writers placed the consideration about human life and life's meaning to the creation of character image, and enhanced their personal experience to the high-level aesthetic realm which integrated with humanity, the experience and consideration of life made their works obtained a extremely depth.Virginia Woolf anf Eileen Chang both have great art charms which is same classic in the times. Their creations of descriptive technics and inquiries of life value have very important meaning. They are truly outstanding and excellent who can't be detoured in literature research, whose novels construct an open world. It's endless to explore their works'forms and contents, which will be continuously developed and enriched.
Keywords/Search Tags:Virginia Woolf, Eileen Chang, Impersonalization, Theory, Narrate, Life
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