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Critical Analysis of Virginia Woolf's Theory of Androgyny in Literary Creation

Luo Ming-jiang

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As a generally acknowledged pioneer and spiritual leader of the feminist movement,Virginia Woolf is unwilling to position herself in the single sexual polarity and confine herself to the prison of gender.She puts forward the androgynous idea in literary writing-the most favorable writing state is to write with androgynous mind.This thesis tries to make a deep analysis of Woolf's vision of androgyny in art creation through a close reading of her three specific texts: To the Light House,Orlando,A Room of One's Own.

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As a generally acknowledged pioneer and spiritual leader of the feminist movement,Virginia Woolf is unwilling to position herself in the single sexual polarity and confine herself to the prison of gender.She puts forward the androgynous idea in literary writing-the most favorable writing state is to write with androgynous mind.This thesis tries to make a deep analysis of Woolf's vision of androgyny in art creation through a close reading of her three specific texts: To the Light House,Orlando,A Room of One's Own.

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As a generally acknowledged pioneer and spiritual leader of the feminist movement,Virginia Woolf is unwilling to position herself in the single sexual polarity and confine herself to the prison of gender.She puts forward the androgynous idea in literary writing-the most favorable writing state is to write with androgynous mind.This thesis tries to make a deep analysis of Woolf's vision of androgyny in art creation through a close reading of her three specific texts: To the Light House,Orlando,A Room of One's Own.

Key concepts: Androgyny, Reading (process), Prison, Art, Literature, Aesthetics, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy

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