Virginia Woolf is one of the earliest and most influential feminist writers of the 20th century. To the Lighthouse is one of Virginia Woolf's autobiographical novel. However, little attention is paid to Lily Brisc...Virginia Woolf is one of the earliest and most influential feminist writers of the 20th century. To the Lighthouse is one of Virginia Woolf's autobiographical novel. However, little attention is paid to Lily Briscoe. Lily sees the family objectively.Her paint-ing symbolically unfolded the whole the entire action of the novel.Lily Briscoe is the real hero. Lily is created as a"moderate Femi-nist"I will discuss how Virginia Woolf creates Lily's figure and how her painting relates to herself and Ramsay family.展开更多
To the Lighthouse is one of Virginia Woolf’s masterpieces.It is also one of the most influential stream-of-consciousness novels in modernism. The focus of this article is to analyze the two main female characters,who...To the Lighthouse is one of Virginia Woolf’s masterpieces.It is also one of the most influential stream-of-consciousness novels in modernism. The focus of this article is to analyze the two main female characters,who are in a sense both artists,in it.展开更多
Known for her unconventional approach to shaping feminist aesthetics through writing,Virginia Woolf portrays a woman painter’s quest for autonomy in the novel To the Lighthouse.Critics have probed Woolf’s insightful...Known for her unconventional approach to shaping feminist aesthetics through writing,Virginia Woolf portrays a woman painter’s quest for autonomy in the novel To the Lighthouse.Critics have probed Woolf’s insightful rewriting of the sublime from different angles,but systemic research into her innovative refashioning of the feminine sublime in her novels remains inadequate.Applying the classic and feminist theories on the sublime and beauty,the article investigates how Woolf reimagines a new sublime mode for Lily Briscoe.The article first focuses on how Virginia Woolf writes her personal life into Lily Briscoe’s quest for the feminine sublime:the archetypal mother’s beauty haunts the woman artist until she works out a new pattern that redefines the position of beauty and sublimity.It then examines Lily’s first step to challenge the traditional aesthetics of beauty by embracing her heterogeneity;namely,by accepting her ambivalent attitudes towards Mrs.Ramsay’s maternity,she empowers the inner self oppressed by the patriarchal society.Furthermore,Lily enriches the feminine sublime by breaking beyond the subject–object binary and succeeding in building intersubjectivity between her and Mrs.Ramsay,and her and Mr.Ramsay.The article concludes that to attain autonomy,Lily Briscoe builds her feminine sublime by cultivating her heterogeneity and subjectifying the Other.It further reveals that through the portrayal of Lily in To the Lighthouse,Woolf conveys her rebellion against the beauty fashioned within patriarchal discourse and promotes the new sublime for women artists like herself.展开更多
文摘Virginia Woolf is one of the earliest and most influential feminist writers of the 20th century. To the Lighthouse is one of Virginia Woolf's autobiographical novel. However, little attention is paid to Lily Briscoe. Lily sees the family objectively.Her paint-ing symbolically unfolded the whole the entire action of the novel.Lily Briscoe is the real hero. Lily is created as a"moderate Femi-nist"I will discuss how Virginia Woolf creates Lily's figure and how her painting relates to herself and Ramsay family.
文摘To the Lighthouse is one of Virginia Woolf’s masterpieces.It is also one of the most influential stream-of-consciousness novels in modernism. The focus of this article is to analyze the two main female characters,who are in a sense both artists,in it.
文摘Known for her unconventional approach to shaping feminist aesthetics through writing,Virginia Woolf portrays a woman painter’s quest for autonomy in the novel To the Lighthouse.Critics have probed Woolf’s insightful rewriting of the sublime from different angles,but systemic research into her innovative refashioning of the feminine sublime in her novels remains inadequate.Applying the classic and feminist theories on the sublime and beauty,the article investigates how Woolf reimagines a new sublime mode for Lily Briscoe.The article first focuses on how Virginia Woolf writes her personal life into Lily Briscoe’s quest for the feminine sublime:the archetypal mother’s beauty haunts the woman artist until she works out a new pattern that redefines the position of beauty and sublimity.It then examines Lily’s first step to challenge the traditional aesthetics of beauty by embracing her heterogeneity;namely,by accepting her ambivalent attitudes towards Mrs.Ramsay’s maternity,she empowers the inner self oppressed by the patriarchal society.Furthermore,Lily enriches the feminine sublime by breaking beyond the subject–object binary and succeeding in building intersubjectivity between her and Mrs.Ramsay,and her and Mr.Ramsay.The article concludes that to attain autonomy,Lily Briscoe builds her feminine sublime by cultivating her heterogeneity and subjectifying the Other.It further reveals that through the portrayal of Lily in To the Lighthouse,Woolf conveys her rebellion against the beauty fashioned within patriarchal discourse and promotes the new sublime for women artists like herself.
