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Discuss The Pioneer Experiment Of "the Mark On The Wall" In Its Text Form

Posted on:2008-09-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360215968976Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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"the Mark on the Wall" is the first stream-of-consciousness novel of Virginia Woolf, who is a Western modernist writer. It has gained the widespread concern and comments of the academics for its new writing technique from its publication. The current research is insufficient in the interpretation to this experimental nature in that it focused on the mining of the text theme and the exploration of its individual arts, but gave little concerns to the origin of the text form experiment behind these individual arts. As such, this paper focused on the pioneer experiment of "the Mark on the Wall" in its text form, and its underlying origin and groundbreaking significance from the following aspects:First, the article dealt with the pioneer experiment of "the Mark on the Wall" in its text form, which will be manifested mainly in three aspects: that is the plotlessness of its content, the variousness of its Style, as well as the network structure formed by two types of time;Then, the article discussed the underlying origin behind the experimental text form of "the Mark on the Wall", there are two main aspects: namely, the generation of "the Mark on the Wall" is not accidental, but is of close relation with Virginia Woolf's resentment to the text form of the traditional novels and her exploration in the new novel forms. Among them, her resentment to the text form of the traditional novels the of the traditional novel form is decided by the impacts of the theory and works encountered by Virginia Woolf, and the new perspectives formed in her explorations in the new novel forms are mainly embodied by her works.Finally, the article describes the pioneering role and significance of "the Mark on the Wall" as a vanguard fiction. It is put into a certain system, pointing out its role and significance. In Virginia Woolf's later works, the novel writing techniques embodied by "the Mark on the Wall" has been more widely used, played an exemplary role; In the history of western literature, the pioneering embodied by "the Mark on the Wall" has a profound effect on the literary novels from 20th century.
Keywords/Search Tags:"the Mark on the Wall", Virginia Woolf, Modernism, pioneer fiction
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