Virginia_Woolf最终版.ppt

弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫 Life 1882-1941, English novelist, critic and essayist Born and brought up in an upper-middle-class, socially active, literary family. Was educated at home, becoming a voracious reader of the books in her father’s extensive library. Experienced her first bout of mental illness after her mother’s death and suffered from bipolar disorder, mania-depression illness, for the rest of her life. Life Moved to the Bloomsbury area of London after her father’s death, and formed the unconventional intellectual and artistic Bloomsbury Group. With Leonard, her husband, Woolf founded Hogarth Press, which published Sigmund Freud, T.S. Eliot and other notable authors, and her own writings. Bloomsbury Group The Bloomsbury Group：a group of writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists who held informal discussions in Bloomsbury throughout the 20th century. This English collective of friends and relatives lived, worked or studied near Bloomsbury in London during the first half of the twentieth century. Their work deeply influenced literature, aesthetics, criticism, and economics as well as modern attitudes towards feminism, pacifism, and sexuality. Its best known members were Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes（凯恩斯，经济学家）, E. M. Forster, and Lytton Strachey. Works EARLY WORKS The Voyage Out, 1915 《出海》 Night and Day, 1919 《日夜》 LATER WORKS Jacob’ s Room, 1922 《雅各的房间》 Mrs. Dalloway, 1925 《黛洛维夫人》 To the Lighthouse, 1927 《到灯塔去》 Orlando, 1928 《奥尔兰多》 The Waves, 1931 《海浪》 The Years, 1937 《年月》 Between the Acts, 1941 《幕与幕之间》 Works COLLECTIONS OF ESSAYS, literary commentaries A Room of One’s Own , 1929 《一间自己的房间》 Moments of Being, 1941, 《存在的瞬间》 THEMES As a novelist Woolfs primary concern was to represent the flow of ordinary experience. Her emphasis was not on plot or characterization but on a characters consciousness, thoughts and feelings, which she brilliantly illuminated by the stream of consciousness technique and interior monologue She wrote about the mind and