unit_10_Virginia_Woolf_

Instructor:LiuDanContinuingEducationCollege,BLCUVirginiaWoolfTeachingProceduresIntroductiontotheAuthorIntroductiontoworksselectedSelectedReadingsAppreciationTopicsforDiscussionIntroductiontotheAuthorEarlyyearsSuccessasawriterLateyearsanEnglishauthor,essayist,publisher,andwriterofshortstories,regardedasoneoftheforemostmodernistliteraryfiguresofthetwentiethcentury.TheHours(2002)MichaelCunningham's1998PulitzerPrize-winningnovelTheHoursfocusedonthreegenerationsofwomenaffectedbyWoolf'snovelMrsDalloway.跨越时空的三个女人，因为一个名字被联系起来----达洛维夫人。不同的时空里，她们的内心深处，关于死亡的挣扎与抗争，没有停息，时时刻刻。Majorworks(1)NovelsTheVoyageOut(1915)NightandDay(1919)Jacob'sRoom(1922)MrsDalloway(1925)TotheLighthouse(1927)Orlando(1928)TheWaves(1931)TheYears(1937)BetweentheActs(1941)Majorworks(2)BiographiesVirginiaWoolfpublishedthreebookstowhichshegavethesubtitleABiography:Orlando:ABiography(1928,usuallycharacterizedNovel,inspiredbythelifeofVitaSackville-West)Flush:ABiography(1933,moreexplicitlycross-genre:fictionasstreamofconsciousnesstalebyFlush,adog;non-fictioninthesenseoftellingthestoryoftheownerofthedog,ElizabethBarrettBrowning)RogerFry:ABiography(1940,usuallycharacterizednon-fiction,however:[Woolf's]novelisticskillsworkedagainsthertalentasabiographer,forherimpressionisticobservationsjostleduncomfortablywiththesimultaneousneedtomarshalamultitudeoffacts.)Majorworks(3)ShortstorycollectionsMondayorTuesday(1921)AHauntedHouseandOtherShortStories(1944)MrsDalloway'sParty(1973)TheCompleteShorterFiction(1985)DramaFreshwater:AComedy(performedin1923,revisedin1935,andpublishedin1976)Majorworks(4)Non-fictionbooksModernFiction(1919)TheCommonReader(1925)ARoomofOne'sOwn(1929)OnBeingIll(1930)TheLondonScene(1931)TheCommonReader:SecondSeries(1932)ThreeGuineas(1938)TheDeathoftheMothandOtherEssays(1942)TheMomentandOtherEssays(1947)TheCaptain'sDeathBedAndOtherEssays(1950)GraniteandRainbow(1958)BooksandPortraits(1978)WomenAndWriting(1979)CollectedEssays(fourvolumes)Majorworks(5)AutobiographicalwritingsanddiariesAWriter’sDiary(1953)–ExtractsfromthecompletediaryMomentsofBeing(1976)AMoment'sLiberty:theshorterdiary(1990)TheDiaryofVirginiaWoolf(fivevolumes)–DiaryofVirginiaWoolffrom1915to1941PassionateApprentice:TheEarlyJournals,1897–1909(1990)TravelsWithVirginiaWoolf(1993)–GreektraveldiaryofVirginiaWoolf,editedbyJanMorrisThePlatformofTime:MemoirsofFamilyandFriends,ExpandedEdition,editedbyS.P.Rosenbaum(London,Hesperus,2008)Majorworks(6)LettersCongenialSpirits:TheSelectedLetters(1993)TheLettersofVirginiaWoolf1888–1941(sixvolumes,1975–1980)PaperDarts:TheIllustratedLettersofVirginiaWoolf(1991)ModernscholarshipRecently,studiesofVirginiaWoolfhavefocusedonfeministandlesbianthemesinherwork,suchasinthe1997collectionofcriticalessays,VirginiaWoolf:LesbianReadings,editedbyEileenBarrettandPatriciaCramer.Woolf'sfictionisalsostudiedforitsinsightintowar,classandmodernBritishsociety.IntroductiontotheworksselectedTotheLighthouseissetontheRamsays'andtheirvisitstotheIsleofSkyeinScotlandbetween1910and1920,skillfullymanipulatestemporalandpsychologicalelements.Thenovelrecallschildhoodemotionsandhighlightsadultrelationships.Amongthebook'smanytropesandthemesarethoseofloss,subjectivity,andtheproblemofperception.TotheLighthousefollowsandextendsthetraditionofmodernistnovelistslikeMarcelProustandJamesJoyce,wheretheplotissecondarytophilosophicalintrospection,andtheprosecanbewindingandhardtofollow.Thenovelincludeslittledialogueandalmostnoaction;mostofitiswrittenasthoughtsandobservations.In1998,theModernLibrarynamedTotheLighthouseNo.15onitslistofthe100bestEnglish-languagenovelsofthe20thcentury.In2005,thenovelwaschosenbyTIMEmagazineasoneoftheonehundredbestEnglish-languagenovelsfrom1923topresent.ListofMajorCharacters:Mrs.Ramsay:SheisthemotherofJames.Sheisabeautifulandvirtuouswoman.Mr.Ramsay:Heisthehusbandandfatherofthefamily.James:Heistheyoungestboyofthefamilywholongsforthelighthouse.LilyBriscoe:Sheisafriendofthefamily.SelectedReadingSelectedReading–ReviewQuestion1Q:HowdoyoucommentontherelationshipbetweenLilyandMr.WilliamBankes?Tips:Mrs.RamsayhopesthatLilyandWilliamBankesgetmarried,soshetellsLilythatWilliamBankesis“thekindestofmen”and“thefirstscientistofhisage”.HadMrs.Ramsaylived,shewouldhavefinishedthistaskofmarryingthem.Accordingtoherarrangement,LilyandWilliamBankesdogoouttogetherseveraltimes.Lilyherselfalsoadmitsthathisfriendshiphasbeenoneofthepleasuresofherlife.SheevenlovedWilliamBankes.Buttherealwaysseemstobeagapbetweenthem,andtheycouldneverbecloseenoughtobelovers.Theycouldnotfully,reallyunderstandeachother.SelectedReading–ReviewQuestion2Q:WhatistherelationshipbetweenMintaandPaul?Aretheyhappytogether?Tips:MintaandPaularewifeandhusband.Buttheydonotgoalongwitheachotherandtheirmarriageisnotsosuccessful.Theywereonceinlove,butlaterontheytreateachothersomewhat“businesslike”.Paultakesupwithanotherwoman,whereasMintastaysoutlateatnight.WhenhecallshomeandfindsthatMintaisout,healsodecidesthathewouldnotcomebackhome.SelectedReading–ReviewQuestion3Q:WhatisLily’