The essay tries to explore the metafiction elements in Michael Cunningham’s novel The Hours.The work,The Hours,is in fact a fiction about how the fiction becomes a fiction and also a fiction about the previous fictio...The essay tries to explore the metafiction elements in Michael Cunningham’s novel The Hours.The work,The Hours,is in fact a fiction about how the fiction becomes a fiction and also a fiction about the previous fiction,Mrs.Dalloway.Through the deconstruction of the previous work,the reality and history are re-defined by The Hours.展开更多
Mrs. Dalloway is one of the most representative poetic novels of the modernist novelist Virginia Woolf in the twentieth Century. It shows Clarissa's death of the soul and her suppression of human nature by portray...Mrs. Dalloway is one of the most representative poetic novels of the modernist novelist Virginia Woolf in the twentieth Century. It shows Clarissa's death of the soul and her suppression of human nature by portraying the one day detailed life.Through intensive text reading and based on Freud's theory of personality structure, this paper intends to analyze Clarissa's unbalanced personality structure: namely her repressed id, obscured ego, and inflated superego, to demonstrate Clarissa's character and personality more clearly.展开更多
The movie The Hours, adapted from Michael Cunningham's novel, presents us three different women's life in a day to reflect trivial people's struggle, contemplation of self-worth and death, with Philip Glas...The movie The Hours, adapted from Michael Cunningham's novel, presents us three different women's life in a day to reflect trivial people's struggle, contemplation of self-worth and death, with Philip Glass' scores and the well-designed settings. This paper focuses on Glass' scores and analyzes its connection with other elements, reflection of those people and coherence of the movie.展开更多
As a stream-of-consciousness novelist,Woolf is usually seen as being far away from social and political reality.This thesis attempts to apply Ethical Literary Criticism to analyze by rereading the text in detail in or...As a stream-of-consciousness novelist,Woolf is usually seen as being far away from social and political reality.This thesis attempts to apply Ethical Literary Criticism to analyze by rereading the text in detail in order to explore the ethical thinking embodied in Woolf's Mrs.Dalloway,exploring those ethical connotations usually ignored by former critics and scholars.展开更多
文摘The essay tries to explore the metafiction elements in Michael Cunningham’s novel The Hours.The work,The Hours,is in fact a fiction about how the fiction becomes a fiction and also a fiction about the previous fiction,Mrs.Dalloway.Through the deconstruction of the previous work,the reality and history are re-defined by The Hours.
文摘Mrs. Dalloway is one of the most representative poetic novels of the modernist novelist Virginia Woolf in the twentieth Century. It shows Clarissa's death of the soul and her suppression of human nature by portraying the one day detailed life.Through intensive text reading and based on Freud's theory of personality structure, this paper intends to analyze Clarissa's unbalanced personality structure: namely her repressed id, obscured ego, and inflated superego, to demonstrate Clarissa's character and personality more clearly.
文摘The movie The Hours, adapted from Michael Cunningham's novel, presents us three different women's life in a day to reflect trivial people's struggle, contemplation of self-worth and death, with Philip Glass' scores and the well-designed settings. This paper focuses on Glass' scores and analyzes its connection with other elements, reflection of those people and coherence of the movie.
文摘As a stream-of-consciousness novelist,Woolf is usually seen as being far away from social and political reality.This thesis attempts to apply Ethical Literary Criticism to analyze by rereading the text in detail in order to explore the ethical thinking embodied in Woolf's Mrs.Dalloway,exploring those ethical connotations usually ignored by former critics and scholars.
