A Study Of Female Space In Woolf’s Three Representative Works Under The Thirdspace Theory

Since the Spatial Turn in the 20 th century,the academic community has refocused on the representation and connotation of space.American scholar Edward W.Soja inherited Henri Lefebvre’s space theory and redefined the Thirdspace theory,expanding the vision from a real material space to an open hyperspace.Virginia Woolf,an outstanding British modernist writer,is well-known for her avant-garde modernist writing and stream of consciousness and her works also contain rich spatial connotations,which are highly consistent with Soja’s diversified Thirdspace.This thesis is based on Soja’s Thirdspace theory,taking Virginia Woolf’s three representative works like Mrs.Dalloway(1925),To the Lighthouse(1927)and Orlando(1928)as the research texts,from the perspective of space,to interpret the spatial connotations of female characters in Woolf’s representative works.From the compromise of Mrs.Dalloway in the first material space,to the resistance of Mrs.Ramsay and the painter Lily in the second spiritual space,to the androgyny of Orlando by gender transformation in the open third space;step by step,from shallow to deep,so that readers can attain a deeper comprehension to Woolf ’s efforts and explorations in breaking binary opposition,pursuing the harmony between two sexes,and seeking female independence and liberation.This thesis provides a new path for the study of Virginia Woolf’s works,meanwhile,through the analysis of female space in Woolf’s works,the openness of Thirdspace is strengthened.