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1、RereadingtheMirrorImage:Looking-Glasses,Gender,andMimeticisminVirginiaWoolf'sWritingHsiu-ChuangDeppmanJournalofNarrativeTheory,Volume31,Number1,Winter2001,pp.31-64(Article)PublishedbyEasternMichiganUniversityDOI:10.1353/jnt.2011.0061Foradditionalinformationaboutthisarticlehttp://muse.
2、jhu.edu/journals/jnt/summary/v031/31.1.deppman.htmlAccessProvidedbyUniversityofScience__ACCESS_STATEMENT__TechnologyBeijingat05/10/1211:45AMGMTRereadingtheMirrorImage:Looking-Glasses,Gender,andMimeticisminVirginiaWoolfsWritingHsiu-ChuangDeppmanLooking-glassesarethemostdangerousandintr
3、actableobjectsinVirginiaWoolf'sstoriesaboutaroomofone'sown.Theyhaveremainedaconstantandintegralpartofthedomesticlandscape,andtheirverypersistencere-flectsthedeepestsymbolicandtechnicalcrisesinherwritings.Symboli-cally,thelooking-glassisthetoolofasocietalsexismreflecting,aswewillsee,wh
4、atWoolfconsiderstobediminutiveimagesofwomen.Tech-nically,theimageinthelooking-glassrepresentsanaestheticrenderingofrealistreality,abrutalpowerwhichdisruptsWoolf'smodernistandfemi-nistperceptionsoffertility,energy,andtheimaginationof"thatextremelycomplexforceoffemininity"indomesticspac
5、e(Room91).InthispaperIdisputetwocommonanalyticalclaimsaboutWoolf'sthematicandaesthetictreatmentofthelooking-glasses.1)Icallintoques-tionmostcritics'interpretationsofhowwomenhave"amicable"and"truthful"relationshipswiththeirmirrorsinWoolf'swriting.1Suchinter-pretationsignore,Iargue,thew
6、aysWoolfframesthelooking-glassesasambivalentandoftenhostileculturaldeviceswhichthreatenawoman'spsychologicalwell-being.2)IcontestacommonstatementaboutWoolf'suseofthemirrorasametaphorforart.2CarefulanalysisofWoolf'stheoryJNT:JournalofNarrativeTheory31.1(Winter2001):31-64.CopyrightO2001
7、byJNT:JournalofNarrativeTheory.32JNTandfictionshowsthatherassociationofrealismwiththelooking-glassconveysanimportantaestheticcritiqueofmimeticism.Who'sAfraidoftheLooking-Glass?ReadingWoolf'swork,oneisoftenstruckbyhowpowerfullyshewritesaboutthehorrorsofawomanfacingamirror.Inmanymemorab
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