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A Study On The Trend Of Virginia Woolf's Feminist Poetics

Posted on:2018-03-12Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:N WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330512999206Subject:Literature and art
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Virginia Woolf is an outstanding British novelist and critic of the twentieth century.She devoted herself to the creation of female subjects in her life.Her works are full of criticism and reflection on patriarchal society.It is to promote social politics,economy and cultural reform.She sought to carry forward the female writing,with a female perspective to look at the world,the human nature of the male and female qualities of the perfect integration of human harmony and symbiosis.These ideas were reflected in her work "to the lighthouse","Mrs.Dalloway","A Room of One's Own" and "Orlando",and at the same time,in Woolf's literary works,there is a cleat reflection of the feminist poetic thinking of the characteristics of the trend.As time goes by,Woolf's ideas are constantly developing in-depth,with a clear direction.This paper attempts to analyze the origin of Virginia Woolf's feminist literary thought,the poetic thought,the diversified development of poetic thought and the highest ideal in four aspects.According to the characteristics of the trend to be analyzed,combined with four of her most representative literary works on we can find the changes of Woolf's thoughts in all directions:The first chapter introduces the background of Virginia Woolf's feminist literary thought,which includes two aspects of social background and family background.The formation of a person's ideas can not be separated from the impact of family and social dimensions,Woolf is no exception,in the Victorian patriarchal society in the context of male-dominated political,economic,cultural and ideological and other areas deeply influenced Woolf life of the family.And in the process of Woolf constantly confrontation with this ideology,the thinking of the outside world and the status quo of women's survival and future development of concern will naturally guide the Woolf The Emergence of Feminist Thought.The second chapter tells of Virginia Woolf's feminist literary thought.This chapter firstly introduces the core connotation of Woolf's feminist poetics from the macroscopic point of view,and has the overall cognition and grasp of Woolf's feminist thought.At the same time,the selection of Woolf published in 1923 works "Mark on the wall" to be discussed and commented,the works reflect the Woolf's feminist poetic thought in the beginning of the fight for the right to speak.Her innovative novels writing techniques,to the patriarchal ideology of society launched the initial impact and challenges.The third chapter discusses the diversified development of Woolf's feminist poetics.After experiencing the awakening of female consciousness,Woolf found that the survival of women worrying,self-consciousness loss,which also destined women in the male society of social life in the tragic fate,so in 1925 and 1927,she published two works of "Mrs.Dalloway" and "To the lighthouse",and further developed their own poetic thought connotation,starting from their own female life experience,trying to awaken women's understanding and grasp of their own ideological principles,thinking and personal dual independence,to become their own integrity of their own.The fourth chapter introduces the highest ideal of "androgyny" in Woolf's feminist poetics.In the face and thinking of the question of gender relations and the solution,Woolf realized that gender is always in a binary state of opposition,since this opposition is inevitable,Woolf's response is given Advocating gender in the collision to the integration,and "bisexual" is the embodiment of the highest form of this fusion.In 1900,Woolf in the "A Room of One's Own" for the first time raised the concept of bisexuality,and the novel "Orlando" is Woolf "double heart" the best ideal of the perfect icon.In the ideal state of the theory of "androgyny",writers can combine the principles of gender with each other to create excellent literary works.More noteworthy is that Woolf advocated the both of them.The theory of "the same body" does not emphasize the decisive factor occupied by either of the two sexes,but seeks the perfect balance between the two and achieves an idealized state.
Keywords/Search Tags:Virginia Woolf, Feminism, Ideological trend, "Androgyny"
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