Fictions of Authority:An Analysis on the Narrative Pattern of Orlando and Woolf's Feminist Ideas

As a modernist writer,Virginia Woolf is regarded as the forerunner of feminism by feminist critics.She tried to gain voice for women writers by writing women.In A Room of One's Own,Woolf first puts forward the idea of androgyny,which is carried out in her novel Orlando.On the basis of Lanser's ideas of narrative pattern discussed in Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice,this paper aims at revealing Woolf's feminist ideas of androgyny and the irony of the women writers' social conditions reflected in Orlando by analyzing the narrative pattern she has used.