The Narrative Techniques In Virginia Woolf's Fictions

The studies on Virginia Woolf have been developed on a large scale for a century, exhibiting the multidimensional tendency. However, through much research into Woolf, the writer of this dissertation, discovers that up till now there is still more space that needs to be further explored in this area, such as the systematic study of her narrative mode. This dissertation conducts an elaborate study of the narrative art in Woolf's fictions from the perspective of narratology. The writer believes that the deep motivation from Woolf's modern experimental fictions resides in the revelation of the inner truth as a human being and the probe into the meaning of life, which endows her fictions with a peculiar"inter-interpretable"relationship between the construction of her narrative art and her humanistic concepts. Therefore, this dissertation, in the course of its explication, both aims at amply anatomizing the narrative traits and laws in Woolf's fictions, and profoundly digging out her contemplation on culture and life latent behind her narrative device.This dissertation consists of three parts: introduction, body and conclusion. The introduction part synthesizes the current studies on Woolf both at home and abroad, presents the domestic translations and research into Woolf's works, and affirms the significance of the perspective of narratology in the studies on Woolf's fictions .The first chapter in the body part places its stress upon Woolf's fictions elucidated from the angle of narratology. It generalizes the evolution and methodology of narratology, illuminates Woolf's views concerning narration, and proposes the research nucleus of this dissertation: the combination of the research into Woolf's narrative art and her meditation on humanity, namely, the concern about the expressional state of Woolf's narrative mode and the humanistic connotation behind the narrative strategy. The second chapter analyzes the narrative subject mode in Woolf's fictions . In her fictions, Woolf mostly employs character narrative context in which the narrators are often latent so as to vividly embody the"impersonally"artistic effect pursued by the novelist. Nevertheless, the writer of this...