Research On The Room Image In Female Novels In The New Period

Room image is an important part of space image in postmodern geography, it is notonly a shelters of architecture to human body, it also has the vital significanceon human’s mental level. room images consciously or not consciously exist in manyfemale novels’ writing since new period, room images in their writing is not an emptysignifier, but a witness who saw the changes and development of female consciousness,recovery and awakening of the female space, female’s run away and retreat, the pain ofwomen and speech are closely related to the room. Construction such as Virginia Woolf’s"own a house" is one of the largest ideal women have. It is the spirit that female relyon, it is also a embodiment of female’s life pursuit and life ideal. This paper combinedwith space theory and feminist theory through four parts: definition of roomimage, evolution of room image and female consciousness, room image and spiritualspace of female, to explain the relationship of room image and the evolution offemale’s subject consciousness since new period.The first part is mainly about definition of room image, it explains therelationship between "room" as space image and the human’s living space, which meansroom is a shelter to human survival; the relationship between room andhuman’s spirit space is that room is the birthplace of human’s dream, it is the habitat ofhuman’s psyche and the cause of the "room" image in female novels: since ancienttimes females were in a homeless situation from the parent’s home to the husband’s andthe important link between room and female’s spiritual home.The second part explains the evolution of female consciousness that reflects in theroom image of female novels in the new period, which mainly divided into three stages:the first stage is from early in the new period to mid eightys, during which "room" imageis reflected in the recovery stage of female self-space. the major performanceswere female’s gender recovery and female’s charges and challenges to male hegemony;The second stage is from mid eighty s to the early ninety s, during which "room" imagereflected in efforts to build space own to female, the main body discusses theconstruction of female subject space and the memory of their homes; The third stage is after ninety s, it discusses the interpretation of female’s privates pace, whichinclude speech and revolt of their body and expression of their desire.The third part mainly explains the relationships between "room" and female’sspiritual space: room is spirit material that females rely on, it embodies both female’s lifedemands and their ideal of life.The fourth part mainly discusses the value orientation of the "room" image: it isa retrospect and survey of female consciousness in new period to tease room image.it isalso provide lessons to the development of females who live in modern timesby summing up experience and lessons from history; At the same time, teasing roomimage also reflects the deep concern an call to female’s life consciousness.