WoolfVirginia.ppt

1、Virginia Woolf,Adeline Virginia Woolf (/wlf/; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbur

2、y Group.,Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London in 1882 to Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Prinsep Stephen,Sir Leslie Stephens eminence as an editor, critic, and biographer, and his connection to William Thackeray, meant that his children were raised in an environment filled with th

3、e influences of Victorian literary society,Throughout her life, Woolf was plagued by periodic mood swings and associated illnesses. Though this instability often affected her social life, her literary productivity continued with few breaks throughout her life.,WHY?,The sudden death of her mother in

4、1895, when Virginia was 13,The death of her father in 1904 provoked her most alarming collapse and she was briefly institutionalised,influenced by the sexual abuse to which she and her sister Vanessa were subjected by their half-brothers,reason,Virginia Stephen married writer Leonard Woolf on the 10

5、th August, 1912 Despite his low material status in 1937, Woolf wrote in her diary: Love-makingafter 25 years cant bear to be separate . you see it is enormous pleasure being wanted: a wife. And our marriage so complete.,marriage,Woolf went on to publish novels and essays as a public intellectual to

6、both critical and popular success. Much of her work was self-published through the Hogarth Press. She has been hailed as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century and one of the foremost modernists,Woolf is considered one of the greatest innovators in the English language.,commendation,

7、In her works she experimented with stream-of-consciousness and the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives of characters. She is also the major lyrical novelist,Woolfs work was criticised for epitomising the narrow world of the upper-middle class English intelligentsia. Some critics ju

8、dged it to be lacking in universality and depth. She was also criticised by some as an anti-Semite, despite her being happily married to a Jewish man.,criticism,Novels The Voyage Out (1915) Night and Day (1919) Jacobs Room (1922) Mrs Dalloway (1925) To the Lighthouse (1927) Orlando (1928) The Waves

9、(1931) The Years (1937) Between the Acts (1941),edits,Her last work, Between the Acts (1941), sums up and magnifies Woolfs chief preoccupations: the transformation of life through art, sexual ambivalence, and meditation on the themes of flux of time and life. All set in a highly imaginative and symb

10、olic narrative encompassing almost all of English history. This book is the most lyrical of all her works, not only in feeling but in style, being chiefly written in verse.,Woolf fell into a depression because of the onset of World War II, the destruction of her London home during the Blitz, the coo

11、l reception given to her biography,Death,Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we cant go through another of those terrible times. And I shant recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I cant concentrate . So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the

12、greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I dont think two people could have been happier til this terrible disease came. I cant fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I cant even write this properly. I cant read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say thateverybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have