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Analysis of The Hours from the Perspective of Queer Theory Abstract The Hours is a novel written by the contemporary American writer Michael Cunningham, a gay man whose works favor non-heterosexual people or ―queers‖. In parody of Virginia Woolf‘s Mrs. Dalloway , this novel tells of one-day stories of three women — Virginia Woolf, Laura Brown and Clarissa Vaughan, who live in different times but are all involved in complicated hetero- or non-heterosexual relationships and who are not typical women in the traditional sense. In other words, they are all queers. Queer theory represents a theoretical vanguard in terms of the issues of sexuality and identity. Given such a coincidence between the author, the novel and the theory, this thesis carries out a critical analysis of The Hours from the perspective of queer theory. The thesis falls into four chapters. The first chapter introduces the author, the novel and queer theory. The second chapter makes a queer thinking of sexuality, the alignment of sex, gender and sexuality, the existing categorizations of sexual orientations and how they are presented in the novel. In the light of queer conception of identity, Chapter Three examines the characters ‘ ―reiterated acting‖ of gender role and identity and the identity crisis that confronts every actor. Chapter Four concludes the whole thesis with a brief review of the whole thesis, the epistemological and methodological shortcomings of queer theory and suggestions for critical application of this theory to literary works. Key Words: The Hours; queer theory; sexuality; identity II Contents 摘要 I Abstract II Chapter 1 Introductio