With The Body, From Feminism To The Bisexual | | Posted on:2010-11-05 | Degree:Master | Type:Thesis | | Country:China | Candidate:Y Zhou | Full Text:PDF | | GTID:2205360275992252 | Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature | | Abstract/Summary: | PDF Full Text Request | | The Hours is a story written by Michael Cunningham with great breakthrough achievement.Because for a long term this story has just been regarded as a writing embodying the spiritual crisis of the women,it has been interpreted from a too simple perspective of feminism,which under-evaluated the depth and profundity of the story.I think The Hours cannot be only interpreted as a feminism story after interpreting this story, but as a story deconstructing feminism.Michael Cunningham explained the commonness of the human's confronting spiritual crisis and the loss of identity sense via the deconstructing of feminism.This text tries to interpret the problem for Michael Cunningham to dismiss from spiritual crisis and how he can get the identity sense.As the interpreting of The Hours is necessarily involved in the interpreting of Virginia Woolf,either involved in different subjects like Psychoanalysis,it is necessary to put such topic in comparative literature.The first chapter of this text mainly discusses Michael Cunningham's deconstructing the traditional feminism and Feminist Movement. Cunningham analyzed the mental state of Woolf's creating Mrs Dalloway and the causes of her change of the result of Mrs Dalloway.Cunningham thought the spiritual crisis of Mrs Dalloway cannot be only interpreted from the perspective of feminism,so Cunningham created such a image as Laura Brown to express her spiritual crisis is a common case for loss of identity sense.Then I illustrate Cunningham thought it was not inadequate to connect with spiritual crisis just via feminism theory and feminist movement through interpreting the image of Clarissa created by Cunningham.The second chapter of this text mainly discusses Cunning's concept of Woolf's death and illustrates his judgment of the root reason of her death via Lacan's theory.This text interprets the reason why Cunningham doesn't agree to understand Woolf's death from the perspective of feminism and describes Cunningham's deconstructing of feminine writing theory and showed Cunningham's idea that the root reason for Woolf's engaging in writing is to seek for self-identification and the loss of identity sense is the root reason of her suicide through Lacan's theory.The third chapter of this text mainly discusses Cunningham's idea of double-sex within one body.It is Cunning's continuance and development of Woolf's cultural heritage.The text firstly discusses Woolf's idea of double-sex within one body.Next after analyzing Cunningham's work, the text shows that this idea is Cunningham's solution to the problem of spiritual crisis and the loss of identity sense. | | Keywords/Search Tags: | Michael Cunningham, Woolf, Lacan, Feminism | PDF Full Text Request | Related items |
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