'Too Uncompromising a Figure to be So Disposed of': Virginia Woolf and/on Olive Schreiner
'Too Uncompromising a Figure to be So Disposed of': Virginia Woolf and/on Olive Schreiner
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“一个太不妥协的人物，不应该被这样处理”：弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫和/奥利弗·施赖纳
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10.1080/00138398.2022.2055855
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2022
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Ong J
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Ong J
1925年，弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫在她对奥利弗·施莱纳书信编辑集的评论中，将施莱纳描述为“一个太不妥协的人物，不能被如此处置”。在这一耐人寻味的评论的启发下，本文将伍尔夫20世纪20年代末的作品与施莱纳的小说和信件进行对话，以追踪两位作者之间的个人和文本联系。通过对施莱纳的《一个非洲农场的故事》(1883年)和伍尔夫的《到灯塔去》(1927年)和《奥兰多》(1928年)的比较分析，我们可以看出他们在小说结构、实验时间性、寓言表现、自然意象的使用以及用来维系小说形式的中心和统一的线性母题上的相似和融合。在《奥兰多》、《一个非洲农民的故事》和施莱纳的《从人到人》(1926)中，以及在《从人到人》和《伍尔夫自己的房间》(1929)中，女权主义论据和莎士比亚的妹妹所扮演的角色都提供了更多的现代主义美学和政治联系。文章最后认为，《伍尔夫和施莱纳》为南非是现代主义创新的先驱提供了证据，从而有助于对全球现代主义发展的新理解。
In her 1925 review of an edited collection of Olive Schreiner’s letters, Virginia Woolf described Schreiner as ‘too uncompromising a figure to be so disposed of’. Prompted by this intriguing comment, this article brings Woolf’s late-1920s writings into conversation with Schreiner’s novels and letters in order to trace personal and textual connections between the two authors. Comparative analysis of Schreiner’sThe Story of an African Farm(1883) and Woolf’sTo the Lighthouse(1927) andOrlando(1928) reveals similarities and confluences in their novelistic structures, experimental temporalities, allegorical representations, use of natural imagery, and in the central and unifying linear motifs that are used to hold together the novel forms. Additional modernist aesthetic and political links are provided by depictions of sex- and gender-crossing characters inOrlando,The Story of an African Farmand Schreiner’sFrom Man to Man(1926), as well as by the feminist arguments and role of ‘Shakespeare’s sister’ inFrom Man to Manand Woolf’sA Room of One’s Own(1929). The article concludes by arguing that ‘Woolf and/on Schreiner’ provides evidence towards a claim for South Africa as a pioneering site of modernist innovation, and thereby contributes to new understandings of the development of global modernisms.