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1、AncientsandModernsinMrs.DallowayMonte,Steven,1967-MLQ:ModernLanguageQuarterly,Volume61,Number4,December2000,pp.587-616(Article)PublishedbyDukeUniversityPressForadditionalinformationaboutthisarticlehttp://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mlq/summary/v061/61.4monte.htmlAccessProvidedbyUnive
2、rsityofScience__ACCESS_STATEMENT__TechnologyBeijingat05/03/125:16AMGMTMLQ61.4-02Monte.cs11/13/002:07PMPage587AncientsandModernsinMrs.DallowayStevenMonteWhenVirginiaWoolftitledthesecondessayinher1925CommonReader“OnNotKnowingGreek,”shewasbeingironic.Theironyshouldbeespeciallyappa
3、renttous,ifonlybecauseWoolfknewGreekwellbytoday’sstandards:readingacoupleofhourseachmorning,shecouldfinishaplayofSophoclesinaweek.Astheessay’soccasionallinesofuntranslatedGreekindicate,Woolfhadandexpectedhercommonreadertohavesomeacquaintancewiththelanguage.Shetemptsustoread“OnNo
4、tKnowingGreek”asanauthorialconfession,orasthere-marksofanauthorspeakingforageneralreadership,tomakeheropeningpointmoreforceful:“Foritisvainandfoolishtotalkofknow-ingGreek.”1Hertitleultimatelyappliesnottoher,nottothegeneralreader,buttothereaderingeneral:nobodyreallyknowsGreek,an
5、dourideasaboutGreekliteratureareinevitablysomewhatfictional.Inotherwords,ourmodernviewsoftheancientsmaysaymoreaboutusthanaboutthem.Iftheironyof“OnNotKnowingGreek”islostonus,itmaybebe-causeourviewsofWoolfsaymoreaboutusthanweacknowledge.Asre-centlyas1996aprominentcriticcouldcommen
6、tonsomeremarksofWoolfbyremindingthereader,“ShedoesnotknowGreek,hasneverbeentoauniversity,maynotwalkonTrinity’slawn,orentertheWrenLibrary.”2ThestaccatorhythmofthislistsuggeststhatWoolfdidnotknowGreekinthesameunambiguouswaythatshedidnotstudyata1Woolf,TheCommonReader:FirstSeries,e
7、d.AndrewMcNeillie(NewYork:Har-courtBrace,1984),23;hereaftercitedasCommon.2GillianBeer,VirginiaWoolf:TheCommonGround(AnnArbor:UniversityofMichi-ganPress,1996),2.ModernLanguageQuarterly61:4,December2000.©2000UniversityofWashington.MLQ61.4-02Monte.cs11/13/002:07PMPage588588MLQ❙Dec
8、ember2000universityandwasnotpermittedtowalkacrossacoll
