A Feminist Approach to Analyze Virginia’s Death
- DOI
- 10.2991/isss-18.2018.56How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Virginia’s Death, Lost Image, Feminist Criticism
- Abstract
Michal Cunningham (1952- ) is one of the most famous and popular American writers nowadays. His work The Hours, published in 1998, has earned a resounding success and awarded PEN/Faulkner Award and Pulitzer Prize. The Hours established Cunningham as a major force in American writing, the research about The Hours and its author Michal Cunningham at home started about 2002 when the Chinese version had been published in China. The book concerns three generations of women lived about 70 years’ time span and affected by a Virginia Woolf novel. Virginia Woolf herself writing Mrs. Dalloway in 1923 and struggling with her own mental illness. With the development of the feminist movement and female liberation many feminist critics interpret the Virginia Woolf’s death in The Hours from the perspective of feminism, and other different aspects. By analyzing the root of Virginia’s death, this paper designs to explore the feminist in Virginia’s death. Therefore, this paper has the positive meaning for the female liberation which offers a new possibility for feminist study
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Rongqiong Guo PY - 2018/05 DA - 2018/05 TI - A Feminist Approach to Analyze Virginia’s Death BT - Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Social Science (ISSS 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 279 EP - 281 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/isss-18.2018.56 DO - 10.2991/isss-18.2018.56 ID - Guo2018/05 ER -