Unit 11

by Virginia Woolf

The New Dress

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Novel reading

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(25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941)

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•Virginia Woolf

•Personal life

•Early years

•Works

•Death

•Comments

Virginia Woolf

•author

• essayist

•writer of short stories

• publisher

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•Virginia Woolf

•Personal life

•Early years

•Works

•Death

•Comments

Early years

Her early life:

Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London in 1882. Young Virginia Woolf

• The young Virginia was educated by her parents in their literate ；

• The sudden death of her mother led to the first of Virginia's several nervous breakdowns

• The death of her father in 1904 provoked her most alarming collapse and she was briefly institutionalized.

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Old Woolf

Her breakdowns and subsequent recurring depressive periods, modern scholars (including her nephew and biographer, Quentin Bell) have suggested, were also influenced by the sexual abuse she and Vanessa were subjected to by their half-brothers George and Gerald Duckworth (which Woolf recalls in her autobiographical essays A Sketch of the Past and 22 Hyde Park Gate).

Early years

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Throughout her life, Woolf was plagued by periodic mood swings and associated illnesses.

Though this instability often affected her social life, her literary productivity continued with few breaks until her suicide.

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•Virginia Woolf

•Personal life

•Early years

•Works

•Death

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Go to the LighthousePublished in 1927

The BloomsburyGroup or Bloomsbury Set was a group of writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists who held informal discussions in Bloomsbury throughout the 20th Century.

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Bloomsbury

Virginia Stephen married writer Leonard Woolf in 1912.

Personal Life

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in 1922, Virginia met the writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West, wife of Harold Nicolson. After a tentative start, they began a sexual relationship that lasted through most of the 1920s.

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Personal Life

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•Virginia Woolf

•Personal life

•Early years

•Works

•Death

•Comments

Works

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NovelsThe Voyage Out (1915)Night and Day (1919)Jacob's Room (1922)Mrs Dalloway (1925)To the Lighthouse (1927)Orlando (1928)The Waves (1931)The Years (1937)Between the Acts (1941)

Short story collectionsMonday or Tuesday (1921)A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (1944)Mrs Dalloway's Party (1973)The Complete Shorter Fiction (1985)

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Biographies

Virginia Woolf published three books to which she gave the subtitle "A Biography":

Orlando: A Biography (1928)

Flush: A Biography (1933)

Roger Fry: A Biography (1940)

Works

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•Virginia Woolf

•Personal life

•Early years

•Works

•Death

•Comments

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Dearest,    I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can’t go through another of these terrible times and I…shan’t recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and can’t concentrate. So I am doing what seems to be the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I know that I am spoiling your life, and without me, you could work. And you will, I know. You see, I can’t even write this properly. What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me…and incredibly good. Everything is gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can’t go on spoiling your life any longer. I don’t think two people could have been happier than we have been.                                                      Virginia

Death

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挚爱的你， 我很确定我会再陷疯狂，我一定熬不过又一次的煎熬，而这次我将无法康复。我开始听到呓声也无法专心，所以我这么做似乎是最好的。你给了我最大的幸福，你已竭尽所能为我付出一切。我知道我毁了你的一生，没有我，你就可以海阔天空，你会的，我知道。我连封信也写不好，我只想说我一生的幸福都是你赋予我的，你对我百般忍耐，也对我……体贴无以复加。我早已一无所有，除了知道你对我的好。我不能再拖累你的一生。再没有人能像我们这般曾经拥有如此幸福。 弗吉尼亚

Death

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On 28 March 1941, Woolf put on her overcoat, filled its pockets with stones, and walked into the River Ouse near her home and drowned. Woolf's body was not found until 18 April 1941.Her husband buried her cremated remains under an elm in the garden of Monk's House, their home in Rodmell, Sussex.

Death

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•Virginia Woolf

•Personal life

•Early years

•Works

•Death

•Influence and Comments

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Influence

看到的弗吉尼亚 . 伍尔夫的肖像都是她的侧面。她是一个美貌的女人，很素净的那种美。侧面的伍尔夫有线条优美的高鼻子和薄嘴唇，修长的颈部、圆润的耳廓和一头柔美的坠髻。

　　如果一个女作家拥有一种公认的美貌，于她的文字有着怎样的一种作用？是一种伤害还是一种滋养？也许，仅仅就是一种附丽。女作家的美貌在读者看来肯定会加深对她作品的好感。

　　这里面还有一种惊奇在里面，因为在众人的眼里，美貌和智慧常常不成正比。人们对林徽因的好感很大程度上在于她满足了这种惊奇，她太美而又这么有才华，天妒人羡，当然就是一种传奇。

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Comments

New words

• cloak (n.) 披风• markedly (adv.) 显著地• complexion (n.) 肤色，气质• conviction (n.) 确信，定罪• misery (adj.) 悲惨的• profound (adj.) 深刻的，渊博的

Novel reading

Appreciation

Definition

•Stream of consciousness is the continuous flow of sense‐perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and memories in the human mind or a literary method of representing a blending of mental processes in fictional characters, usually in an unpunctuated or disjointed form of interior monologue

In Mumbai in 2006, eighteen-year-old Jamal Malik , a former street child from the Juhu slum, is a contestant on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?…

MOVIES

The Legend of 1900 (海上钢琴师 ) ， Forrest Gump(阿甘正传 ) ， Frank Miller's Sin City(罪恶之城 ) ，…

The originWilliam James (1842-1910)He was first come up with the Idea of stream of consciousness.His masterpieces Principle of Psychology President Jimmy Cater’s Moral Equivalent of War Speech

Virginia Woolf•Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929),

James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce(1882-1941) Ulysses (1922) Dubliners (1914)A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

Duo Duo

He is the first Chinese writer who brought stream of consciousness to china.His masterpieceOutline of Warmer

Katherine Mansfield

Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Murry (1888-1923)Her most well-known stories "The Garden Party", "The Daughters of the Late Colonel" and "The Fly." …

Development of Short Stories

Katherine Mansfield（凯瑟琳 · 曼斯菲尔德）

Mansfield revealed the inner life of her characters by focusing on significant moments in their lives, manipulating time, and making use of flashbacks in her stories . Her stories ,collected under the titles of In a German Penison .Bliss 《天赐的福及其他故事》 , The Garden Party 《游园会 》 .

Virginia woolf( 弗吉尼亚 · 伍尔夫 )

a female novelist and critic ,The following three books Mrs .Dalloways,

To the Lighthouse and The Waves showed her most skillful use of stream of consciousness technique.

To the Lighthouse （《到灯塔去》） is considered her masterpiece . Woolf was also a femalist ,she was very much concerned with the rights and positions of women, she wrote several essays on the subject .

Exercise • 1.What kind of person was Mabel in your opinion?• 2.Why did she accept the invitation to the fashionable party at Mrs. Dalloway’s

house?• 3.What was her attitude toward her dress for the party at first? Why?• 4.What was her attitude toward her dress when she was at the party?• 5.How do you understand the metaphor “fly” used by the author?• 6.What was Mabel’s response to the attitudes or remarks of others about her

dress?• 7.What was Mabel’s attitude toward the people she met at Mrs. Dalloway’s

party? What do you think of her judgement?• 8.What effect does the authoor achieve by piling oen small, significant detail

upon another?