教 案 课程名称 英国文学 授课专业及层次 授课内容 Lecture 33 Introduction to Virginia WoolfI 学时数 2 To let the students see the significance ofliterature 教学目的 Toe the students havethe general im ssion of British literature Toet the studentsget basic British iterature 重点 To get to know the general clue of British literary history To get to know the important British writers and literary works 难点 To get to know some key terms 自学内容 Additional reading materials about the western cultural background 使用教具 Projector,audio-video machine 相关学科知识 Western culture and general Literary theories Open questions and answers in class 教学法Clss discussion and analysis 讲授内容纲要、要求及时间分配 1.0Her Life Born:25 January 1882 Birthplace:London,England Died:28 March 1941(suicide by drowning) one of4 children daughter ofbiographer and critic Leslie Stephen(later Sir Leslie) educated at home by her father. 5 voracious reader ofbooks in father's library As a young woman Woolfmoved to Gordon Square.Bloomsbury The house became a gathering place for writers,artists and intellectuals and this "Bloomsbury Group"is remembered as an 5
教 案 课程名称 英国文学 授课专业及层次 授课内容 Lecture 33: Introduction to Virginia Woolf I 学时数 2 教学目的 To let the students see the significance of literature; To let the students have the general impression of British literature. To let the students get basic knowledge of British literature 重 点 To get to know the general clue of British literary history To get to know the important British writers and literary works 难 点 To get to know some key terms To know some methods for literary appreciation and criticism 自学内容 Additional reading materials about the western cultural background 使用教具 Projector, audio-video machine 相关学科知识 Western culture and general Literary theories 教 学 法 Open questions and answers in class Class discussion and analysis 讲授内容纲要、要求及时间分配 1.0 Her Life Born: 25 January 1882 Birthplace: London, England Died: 28 March 1941 (suicide by drowning) one of 4 children daughter of biographer and critic Leslie Stephen (later Sir Leslie) educated at home by her father. voracious reader of books in father’s library As a young woman Woolf moved to Gordon Square, Bloomsbury. The house became a gathering place for writers, artists and intellectuals and this "Bloomsbury Group" is remembered as an 5’ 5’ 5’
incubator ofmodernartistic thought Married Leonard Woolf,a critic and writer on economics and politics. Virginia Woolf,her husband,her siblings,and their friends became known as the Bloomsbury Group. In 1917 the Woolfs founded Hogarth Press Her mother's death in 1895 trigger the first mental breakdown. When father died in 1904.suffered a second breakdown and attempted suicide by jumping out ofwindow On Match 28,1941,she left notes for her husband Leonard Woolf and sister Vanessa before drowning in the River Ouse. 2.0 Literary career Dissatisfied with the novel based on familiar,factual,and external details,Virginia Woolf followed experimental clues to a more internal,subjective,and in a sense more personal rendering of experience than had been provided by Henry James,Marcel Proust,and James Joyce. In the works of these masters the reality of time and experience 5 had formed the stream of consciousness,a concept that probably originated with William James Virginia Woolf lived in and responded to a world in which certitudes were collapsing under the stresses of changing
incubator of modern artistic thought. Married Leonard Woolf, a critic and writer on economics and politics. Virginia Woolf, her husband, her siblings, and their friends became known as the Bloomsbury Group. In 1917 the Woolfs founded Hogarth Press Her mother’s death in 1895 trigger the first mental breakdown. When father died in 1904, suffered a second breakdown and attempted suicide by jumping out of window. On Match 28, 1941, she left notes for her husband Leonard Woolf and sister Vanessa before drowning in the River Ouse. 2.0 Literary career Dissatisfied with the novel based on familiar, factual, and external details, Virginia Woolf followed experimental clues to a more internal, subjective, and in a sense more personal rendering of experience than had been provided by Henry James, Marcel Proust, and James Joyce. In the works of these masters the reality of time and experience had formed the stream of consciousness, a concept that probably originated with William James. Virginia Woolf lived in and responded to a world in which certitudes were collapsing under the stresses of changing 5’ 5’ 5’ 5’ 5’
knowledge,the civilized savagery of war,and new manners and morals. She drew on her personal,sensitive,poetic awareness without rejecting altogether the heritage of literary culture she derived from her family. Woolf was immortalized in the title of Edward Albee's 1962 play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. 3.0 Major Works Mrs.Dalloway,.《达罗威夫人》 To the Lighthouse,《到灯塔去》 Jacob's Room,《雅各之室》 In The Waves(《海浪》，I93)she masterfully employed the stream-of-consciousness technique. Other experimental novels include Orlando(1928,《奥兰多》 The Years(1937),《岁月》 Between the Acts(1941),《两幕之间》 With To the Lighthouse (1927)and The Waves (1931),Woolf 5 established herselfas one of the leading writers ofmodernism. The Common Reader(1925) The Second Common Reader(1933) Virginia Woolf's championship of woman's rights is reflected in
knowledge, the civilized savagery of war, and new manners and morals. She drew on her personal, sensitive, poetic awareness without rejecting altogether the heritage of literary culture she derived from her family. Woolf was immortalized in the title of Edward Albee's 1962 play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. 3.0 Major Works Mrs. Dalloway, 《达罗威夫人》 To the Lighthouse,《到灯塔去》 Jacob‘s Room,《雅各之室》 In The Waves (《海浪》, 1931) she masterfully employed the stream-of-consciousness technique. Other experimental novels include Orlando (1928), 《奥兰多》 The Years (1937), 《岁月》 Between the Acts (1941), 《两幕之间》 With To the Lighthouse (1927) and The Waves (1931), Woolf established herself as one of the leading writers of modernism. The Common Reader (1925) The Second Common Reader(1933) Virginia Woolf’s championship of woman's rights is reflected in 5’ 10’ 5’
the essays in A Room ofOne's Own(1929) Three Guineas(1938) 4.0 books of criticism The Common Reader(1925) 5 The Second Common Reader(1933) Virginia Woolf's championship of woman's rights is reflected in the essays in A Room ofOne's Own(1929) Three Guineas(1938) a master ofStream ofConsciousness an original contribution made to the form of the novel also distinguished feminist essayist a central figure of Bloomsbury Group“布鲁姆斯伯里集团' 5 In her works,she used the technique called "stream of consciousness",revealing the lives of her characters by revealing their thoughtsand associations. 5.0 Styles stream ofconsciousness(interiormonologue,soliloquy) time schemes symbolism and imagery
the essays in A Room of One's Own (1929) Three Guineas (1938) 4.0 books of criticism The Common Reader (1925) The Second Common Reader(1933) Virginia Woolf’s championship of woman's rights is reflected in the essays in A Room of One's Own (1929) Three Guineas (1938) a master of Stream of Consciousness an original contribution made to the form of the novel also distinguished feminist essayist a central figure of Bloomsbury Group “布鲁姆斯伯里集团” In her works, she used the technique called “stream of consciousness”, revealing the lives of her characters by revealing their thoughts and associations. 5.0 Styles stream of consciousness (interior monologue, soliloquy) time schemes symbolism and imagery 5’ 5’ 5’ 5’ 5’
loose syntax 5 multiple narrative voices coherent device irony 5.1 portrayal ofsubjective world: 5 Though not in the first person,reader immersed in the subjective mental world of various characters,their motivations and prejudices. Mentalarguments 5.2 flow of consciousness,floating from the mind ofone character to the next. 5.3 two time schemes physical and actual time vs.subjective and mind time linear time vs.circular time pastand present mingled 5.4 feminine sensitivity and consciousness 5.5 loosesyntax,plotand narrative voice 5.6 symbolism and imagery
loose syntax multiple narrative voices coherent device irony 5.1 portrayal of subjective world: Though not in the first person, reader immersed in the subjective mental world of various characters, their motivations and prejudices. Mental arguments 5.2 flow of consciousness, floating from the mind of one character to the next. 5.3 two time schemes: physical and actual time vs. subjective and mind time linear time vs. circular time past and present mingled 5.4 feminine sensitivity and consciousness 5.5 loose syntax, plot and narrative voice 5.6 symbolism and imagery 5’ 5’ 5’
教 案 课程名称 英因文学 授课专业及层次 授课内容 Lecture 34: Introduction to Virginia Woolf II 学时数 2 To let the students see the significance of literature; 教学目的 To let the studentsh To let the students get basic knowledge of British literature To get to know the general clue of British literary history 重点 To get to know the important British writers and literary works 难点 To get to know some key terms Toknowsommthosforerary appreciation andtism 自学内容 Additional reading materials about the western cultural background 使用教具 Projector,audio-video machine 相关学科知识 Western culture and general Literary theories Open questions and answers in class 教学法 Ciass discussion and analysis 讲授内容纲要、要求及时间分配 1.0 MajorAchievements 1.1 As an Essayist: 5 The Common Reader(1925 1932); A Room of One's Own (1929)&Three Guineas (1938)women problems and her feminist ideas 1.2 As a Novelist: 5 The Voyage Out(1915)&Nightand Day(1919) Jacob's Room(1922) Mrs.Dalloway(1925)&To the Lighthouse (1927)The Waves (1931) Orlando (1928)&Between the Acts (1941)
教 案 课程名称 英国文学 授课专业及层次 授课内容 Lecture 34: Introduction to Virginia Woolf II 学时数 2 教学目的 To let the students see the significance of literature; To let the students have the general impression of British literature. To let the students get basic knowledge of British literature 重 点 To get to know the general clue of British literary history To get to know the important British writers and literary works 难 点 To get to know some key terms To know some methods for literary appreciation and criticism 自学内容 Additional reading materials about the western cultural background 使用教具 Projector, audio-video machine 相关学科知识 Western culture and general Literary theories 教 学 法 Open questions and answers in class Class discussion and analysis 讲授内容纲要、要求及时间分配 1.0 Major Achievements 1.1 As an Essayist: The Common Reader(1925 & 1932); A Room of One’s Own (1929) & Three Guineas (1938)→ women problems and her feminist ideas 1.2 As a Novelist: The Voyage Out(1915) & Night and Day (1919) Jacob’s Room (1922) Mrs. Dalloway (1925) & To the Lighthouse (1927) & The Waves (1931) Orlando (1928) & Between the Acts (1941) 5’ 5’
2.0 Points of View: 5 2.1 Ideas of Novel Writing:what a writer should do is to record what life felt like to living things,to communicate the impression made by one individual upon others,and to reveal human personality partly through its own self-consciousness and partly through the picture projected by it uponother minds. 2.2 Feminist Ideas:a strong advocator of feminist movement.Her ideal is the blending of masculine intellect and logic with feminine intuitionand imagination. 2.3 Two Kinds of Truth:reason intuition.Reason in the masculine sphere:truth-in the feminine. 3.0 Characteristics of Her Novels: 5 3.1 The Aesthetic Aspects of Life:Virginia Woolf's characters are presented essentially as solitaries.Their inner life is what really matters.Even in company,they seem to be alone,absorbed in private unspoken trains of thought.Their relations to others are only valuable to them inso far as they feed and enrich their solitary experience.If her first impulse is to express life's loveliness,her second is to express its transience;life drifts past her like a cloud,shifting. changing,dissolving,even as she gazes 3.2 New Devices: The Narrow Framework of Time-the employment of devices 5
2.0 Points of View: 2.1 Ideas of Novel Writing: what a writer should do is to record what life felt like to living things, to communicate the impression made by one individual upon others, and to reveal human personality partly through its own self-consciousness and partly through the picture projected by it upon other minds. 2.2 Feminist Ideas: a strong advocator of feminist movement. Her ideal is the blending of masculine intellect and logic with feminine intuition and imagination. 2.3 Two Kinds of Truth: reason & intuition. Reason → in the masculine sphere; truth → in the feminine. 3.0 Characteristics of Her Novels: 3.1 The Aesthetic Aspects of Life: Virginia Woolf’s characters are presented essentially as solitaries. Their inner life is what really matters. Even in company, they seem to be alone, absorbed in private unspoken trains of thought. Their relations to others are only valuable to them in so far as they feed and enrich their solitary experience. If her first impulse is to express life’s loveliness, her second is to express its transience; life drifts past her like a cloud, shifting, changing, dissolving, even as she gazes. 3.2 New Devices: The Narrow Framework of Time → the employment of devices 5’ 5’ 5’ 5’ 5’
of memory and psychic time.She also explores the different effects of three-folded time strata-the passing of the hours (the clock time), the voyage from youth to age(the symbolic time),and the blending 5 upof the past,present and fiture (the psychic time)purpose:to represent the dual aspect of human life-the inner life simultaneously with the outer life. Symbolic Structures-recurrent images or symbols:embody a 5 rich symbolic meaning of the themes,serves an unifying devices to ling up the fragmentary details,so that the theme,the structure and the symbolic images are woven into an organic whole. 3.3 The Shift of the Psychic Presentation:interior monologues or 5 stream of consciousness.The flow of consciousness moves and shifts from one mind to another in succession,showing a diversity of personal experience in a single design. 3.4 Style:richness,lucidity,transparentness,and most of all the quality oflyric poetry. 5 4.0Theme life and death sanity and insanity human connection and separation 5.0 Mrs.Dalloway 5 As Woolf explained in a preface she wrote for the Modern Library
of memory and psychic time. She also explores the different effects of three-folded time strata—the passing of the hours (the clock time), the voyage from youth to age (the symbolic time), and the blending up of the past, present and future (the psychic time)→ purpose: to represent the dual aspect of human life—the inner life simultaneously with the outer life. Symbolic Structures → recurrent images or symbols: embody a rich symbolic meaning of the themes, serves an unifying devices to ling up the fragmentary details, so that the theme, the structure and the symbolic images are woven into an organic whole. 3.3 The Shift of the Psychic Presentation: interior monologues or stream of consciousness. The flow of consciousness moves and shifts from one mind to another in succession, showing a diversity of personal experience in a single design. 3.4 Style: richness, lucidity, transparentness, and most of all the quality of lyric poetry. 4.0 Theme life and death sanity and insanity human connection and separation 5.0 Mrs. Dalloway As Woolf explained in a preface she wrote for the Modern Library 5’ 5’ 5’ 5’ 5’
edition of Mrs.Dalloway published by in 1928,"I want to give the slipperiness of the soul.I want to give life and death,sanity and insanity;I want to criticize the social system,and to show it at work,at its most intense." Irene Simon:"It is just the purpose of Virginia Woolf to abolish 5 the distinction between dream and reality;she effects this by mixing images with gestures,thoughts with impressions,visions with pure sensations,and by presenting them as mirrored on a consciousness.” communication and connection people long for but fail to achieve 5 especially between people who are apparently close:wife and husband,parents and children,acquaintances and friends Sally:"Are we not all prisoners?.despairing of human relationships(people were so difficult)."(p140) But there exist secret,hidden path to other people beneath conventional social relations:Clarissa and Septimus,Peter and Lucrezia with beggar woman who moums for dead love. Septimus and Mrs.Bradshaw:shut up,suppressed,narrowed, victim of the same force. People don't say what they feel.What people said "superficial" and "fragmentary"(p89)Lucrezia does not confess her unhappiness to anyone;Peter almost asks Clarissa what she really 5
edition of Mrs. Dalloway published by in 1928, “I want to give the slipperiness of the soul.I want to give life and death, sanity and insanity; I want to criticize the social system, and to show it at work, at its most intense.” Irene Simon: “It is just the purpose of Virginia Woolf to abolish the distinction between dream and reality; she effects this by mixing images with gestures, thoughts with impressions, visions with pure sensations, and by presenting them as mirrored on a consciousness.” communication and connection people long for but fail to achieve especially between people who are apparently close: wife and husband, parents and children, acquaintances and friends. Sally: “Are we not all prisoners?.despairing of human relationships (people were so difficult).” (p140) But there exist secret, hidden path to other people beneath conventional social relations: Clarissa and Septimus, Peter and Lucrezia with beggar woman who mourns for dead love. Septimus and Mrs. Bradshaw: shut up, suppressed, narrowed, victim of the same force. People don’t say what they feel. What people said “superficial” and “fragmentary” (p89) Lucrezia does not confess her unhappiness to anyone; Peter almost asks Clarissa what she really 5’ 5’ 5’ 5’
feels,but interrupted by Elizabeth;Clarissa does not voice the rea feelings running through her head;Septimus says what he feels and is considered insane. Clarissa when young feels that"it was the only thing worth saying 5 -what one felt.Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt."(p139) But unable to do so with Peter,Kilman,Elizabeth,Richard,and the guests at the party. Clarissa's parties:she reminds everyone she sees to the party "Remember my party."except maybe Ellie Henderson,poor cousin,actually the one who really needs and enjoys the party. It seems silly,frivolous. Sensitive to beauty of the moments and details of human 5 experience. parties way ofsharing moments ofpleasure with others. "offering"with something to help people remember her by after her death. Woolf once described insanity as a form of death because its 5 intense loneliness created a human void for the sufferer. In parties,Clarissa fights thisemptiness. Brings people together,create human dialogue,life and sanity. Mrs.Dalloway simultaneously supports two opposing ideas:the 5
feels, but interrupted by Elizabeth; Clarissa does not voice the real feelings running through her head; Septimus says what he feels and is considered insane. Clarissa when young feels that “it was the only thing worth saying –what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.” (p139) But unable to do so with Peter, Kilman, Elizabeth, Richard, and the guests at the party. Clarissa’s parties: she reminds everyone she sees to the party, “Remember my party.” except maybe Ellie Henderson, poor cousin, actually the one who really needs and enjoys the party. It seems silly, frivolous. Sensitive to beauty of the moments and details of human experience. parties way of sharing moments of pleasure with others. “offering” with something to help people remember her by after her death. Woolf once described insanity as a form of death because its intense loneliness created a human void for the sufferer. In parties, Clarissa fights this emptiness. Brings people together, create human dialogue, life and sanity. Mrs. Dalloway simultaneously supports two opposing ideas: the 5’ 5’ 5’ 5’