A Study Of The Soundscape And Auditory Writing Of Virginia Woolf's Novels

Virginia Woolf(1882-1941)is a representative of stream of consciousness novels and an important writer of modernist literature.Her writing career has experienced such a period of historical transition.Since the 1870 s,the sound technology has achieved great development,and the auditory culture has also undergone great changes,thus expanding the writing dimension of auditory perception in modernist literature.Woolf has always been committed to the experiment of the integration of novel and art.Her novels not only expand the forms of sound expression,but also embody the writer’s exploration and recreation of auditory experience in the context of modernity.Auditory objectification is an important artistic expression in Woolf’s novels.Her novels record soundscape of modern cities and reflect the changes of the subject’s auditory perception.This paper adopts the interdisciplinary research method,takes the sounds in Woolf’s nine novels as the clue to connect the subject with the auditory environment,so as to show the changes of the subject’s hearing perception of modern cities and the artistic application of the sound.The first chapter explores the positive experience of the subject’s auditory perception during the development of sound technology.The telephone and soundscape of the city stimulate the subject’s acute auditory perception,and the subject’s perception mode changes from the single visual space to the multiple auditory space.Through listening,the subject receives the external stimulation,resonates with the mind,thus feels the progress of the times,gets inspired and actively integrates into the environment.The second chapter studies the negative experience of the subject’s auditory perception during the two world wars.This chapter discusses the conflict between the individual and the environment through two parts: the desire for communication frustrated by noise and the traumatic experience presented by auditory experience,reflecting the alienation between people,the loneliness and trauma of individuals during the war years.The third chapter discusses how the subject actively transforms external sounds to adapt to their own existence in modern society.Woolf uses silence,reciting poems and music this three special sound arts to reestablish the value of existence,to communicate self and the other,so as to guide the way out for the survival plight of modern people.