The paper aims to make the abstract and even profound writing techniques of stream -of -consciousness concrete and easy -understanding as well as to demonstrate its functions in novel writing with illustration of the ...The paper aims to make the abstract and even profound writing techniques of stream -of -consciousness concrete and easy -understanding as well as to demonstrate its functions in novel writing with illustration of the famous work To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf who successfully employs this writing technique. The writing techniques involved are indirect interior monologue montage, free association and multiple -point -of view. The application of these approaches attributes greatly to better exposing t...展开更多
Virginia Woolf is represented as a forerunner writer of stream of consciousness. To the Lighthouse is her most wellknown biographical novel, which probes a story that whether the Ramsays can go to the lighthouse or no...Virginia Woolf is represented as a forerunner writer of stream of consciousness. To the Lighthouse is her most wellknown biographical novel, which probes a story that whether the Ramsays can go to the lighthouse or not. Mr Ramsay represents as a patriarchal image; Mrs Ramsay stands for a typical housewife. This essay delivers how housewifery and patriarchy presents in this novel and what the solution of Lily's choice under the framework of housewifery and patriarchy.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The paper aims to make the abstract and even profound writing techniques of stream -of -consciousness concrete and easy -understanding as well as to demonstrate its functions in novel writing with illustration of the famous work To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf who successfully employs this writing technique. The writing techniques involved are indirect interior monologue montage, free association and multiple -point -of view. The application of these approaches attributes greatly to better exposing t...
文摘Virginia Woolf is represented as a forerunner writer of stream of consciousness. To the Lighthouse is her most wellknown biographical novel, which probes a story that whether the Ramsays can go to the lighthouse or not. Mr Ramsay represents as a patriarchal image; Mrs Ramsay stands for a typical housewife. This essay delivers how housewifery and patriarchy presents in this novel and what the solution of Lily's choice under the framework of housewifery and patriarchy.
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.
