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AN INTERTEXTUAL STUDY OF THE HOURS AND MRS.DALLOWAY 姓名： 学号：311201118 专业：商务英语 指导老师：杨晓霖完成日期：2013年12月2日 Abstract：Michael Cunningham’s The Hours has been treated as the contemporary review and revision of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs.Dalloway.Despite its inter-texts with other anterior works such as the diaries and letters of Virginia Woolf,Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook and to Room Nineteen,Mrs.Dalloway remains the central source for his fiction.By entitling his novel“The Hours”—one of the titles Woolf considered for her novel in its early stages,Cunningham manipulates Mrs.Dalloway in his“Mrs.Woolf”,“Mrs.Brown”and“Mrs.Dalloway”,either as the three narrative strands or as three major characters.Besides,he expressed his viewpoint about some themes,such as theme of death,response to life,and infused his own conception in some images,like parties and flowers,all of which can bet raced back to Woolf’s text.In addition,Cunningham also shows his indebtedness as a postmodernist writer to his modernist canon by employing similar techniques such as the technique of stream of consciousness.By adopting and adapting the anterior text in a variety of ways,Cunningham weaves the intertextual elements in his own writing and creates an innovative text.Adopting the theory of intertextuality this thesis is intended to explore the intertextual connection between the two texts and investigate how Cunningham manipulates and transforms the anterior texts and,accordingly,establishes a two-way relationship between himself and Woolf. Key Words:intertextuality,Kristeva,Mrs.Dalloway,Virginia Woolf,The Hours,Michael Cunningham Introduction:Intertextuality is the shaping of a text meaning by another text. Intertextual figures include: allusion, quotation, calque, plagiarism, translation,pastiche and parody. An example of intertextuality is an author’s borrowing and transformation of a prior text or to a reader’s referencing of one text in reading another.The term