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1、單擊此處編輯母版標題樣式,單擊此處編輯母版文本樣式,第二級,第三級,第四級,第五級,*,單擊此處編輯母版標題樣式,單擊此處編輯母版文本樣式,第二級,第三級,第四級,第五級,*,Unit 4,A New Dress,-Virginia Woolf,Outline,About the author,Warm-up questions,Textual analysis,Critical response and impact,About the author-Virginia Woolf,(1882-1941),Life experience,Born and brought up in an up
2、per-middle-class,literary family,and educated at home from the resources of her fathers huge library.,Experienced her first bout(,發(fā)作,)of,mental illness,after her mothers death and suffered from bipolar(,雙極的,)disorder,mania-depression(,躁郁癥,)illness,for the rest of her life.,Moved to the Bloomsbury ar
3、ea of London after her fathers death,and formed the unconventional intellectual and artistic,Bloomsbury Group,.,Began her professional writing life in 1905,Married Leonard Woolf in 1912,a critic and writer on economics,with whom she,set up the Hogarth Press,in 1917.,Drowned herself,in the river in 1
4、941,as England entered World War II,and at the verge of another nervous breakdown she feared would be permanent.,Bloomsbury Group,Their home became a gathering place-Bloomsbury Group.It thrived at the center of the,middle-class,and,upper-middle-class London intelligentsia,(,知識階層,).The participants i
5、nclude,Lytton Strachey,(the biographer),J.M.Keynes,(the economist),Bertrand Russell,(the philosopher),Desmond MacCarthy,(the critic),E.M.Foster,(the novelist),as well as Virginias sister,Vanessa Bell,(an artist).,Their intelligence was equaled by their,frankness,notably on,sexual topic,and the sexua
6、l life of Bloomsbury provided ample material for discussion and contributed to Woolfs freedom of thinking about gender relations.,Theme,Virginia Woolf grew increasingly concerned with the position of women,especially professional women,and the constrictions under which they suffered.,Woolf advocated
7、 the creation of literature that would include womens experience and ways of thinking.She proposed literature that would be“androgynous(兼有男女兩性的)in mind and resonate equally with men and women.,Characteristics of writing,Virginia Woolf is considered one of the greatest innovators in the English langu
8、age.In her works she experimented with,stream of consciousness,and the underlying,psychological as well as emotional motives,of characters.,In her novels,she abandoned linear narratives in favor of interior monologues and stream of consciousness narration,exploring with great subtlety problems of,pe
9、rsonal identity and personal relationships as well as the significance of time,change,loss and memory for human personality,.,Important Works,Novels,The Voyage Out,(1915),Jacobs Room,(1922),Mrs.Dalloway,(1925),To the Lighthouse,(1927),Orlando,(1928),The Waves,(1931),Between the Acts,(1941),Essays,Th
10、e Common Reader,(1925),A Room of Ones Own,(1929),The Second Common Reader,(1932),Moments of Being,(1941),Short story collections,A Haunted House and Other Short Stories,(1944),Warm-up questions,1.Analyze the personality of the main character Mabel.,2.How does the image of new dress develop the plot?
11、,3.What does“a new dress symbolize?,Textual Analysis,Background information,Plot summary,Character analysis,Symbols and images,Background Information,The New Dress,is a short story by the English author Virginia Woolf.,It was written in 1924 whilst Virginia Woolf was writing,Mrs.Dalloway,(which was
12、published the following year).It is possible that it was originally to have been a chapter in the novel with which it shares some characters and events.It was not published until 1927 when it appeared in the May edition of the New York magazine,The Forum,.It appeared again in,A Haunted House and Oth
13、er Short Stories,published in 1944,and in,Mrs.Dalloways Party,published in 1973.,Plot Summary,It is a simple short story concerning the protagonist,Mabel Waring,who wore an old-fashioned new dress to attend a party.What on the surface was that she behaved properly and elegantly,conforming completely
14、 to the social etiquette.But what in her mind was that this inappropriate new dress was a sign of failure,which tortured her all the time during the party and thus contributed to her constant interior monologue.,The stream-of-consciousness narrative concerns Mabel Waring,deeply self-conscious and in
15、secure as she attends a party hosted by Clarissa Dalloway.Mabels new,though old-fashioned dress symbolizing her insecurity;she has gone to great care to have it made but on arrival at the party she sees it in a mirror and immediately announces to herself No.It was not,right,.,Character Analysis,Dual
16、 personality,as is suggested,mainly refers to the contradictory features existing in ones character.For the protagonist Mabel,the,self-conflicts within her spiritual world,was deeply discovered and described by the author,vividly presenting her dual personality,which impressed readers with not only her own character but more importantly,the,weakness of human nature,.,Five typical aspects:,Vanity,VS,Honesty,Desperately low self-esteem,VS,Heart of hope and optimism,Green with envy,VS,Full of disgu
英美短篇小 說Unit 4 A New Dress
