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버지니어 울프의 "존재의 순간들"과 다시 쓰는 유토피아 : Virginia Woolfs Moments of Being and Utopia Refigured.
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- Authors
- Issue Date
- 2004
- Publisher
- 서울대학교 인문대학 인문학연구원
- Citation
- 인문논총, Vol.51, pp. 105-137
- Abstract
- This study is a critical response to the longstanding critical view that has aligned
moments of being in Virginia Woolf with religious or mystical traditions of
epiphany — a sudden revelation of transcendent truth. From this perspective, the
moments of being mark instants for transcending the chaotic, rapidly changing, and
fragmented life in a modern society, finding their existence in the self-limited and
self-sufficing work of art. Thus, the moments of being have been easily connected
to order, eternity, stabilization, and stasis, while also implicating their fundamental
transcendence from — or independence from — ordinary life.
Reading against the grain, this paper proposes that Woolfs moments constitute
active engagement with actual social life. My contention is that eruptive moments in
Woolf are not static, but dynamic; they are resistant, rather than susceptible, to
order and stability, as well as to the belief of the linear progress of time and history.
Structured by the alternations between the present as a part of an order — which is
subservient to maintaining the status quo — and the eruptive present — that
exposes and challenges the repressive forces of the former —, an essay entitled
The Moment: Summers Night dramatizes the political potential for the subversive moments of being as a social criticism. In Mrs. Dalloway, Clarissas encounter with
moments of being against the backdrop of the social space of London ushers us
into an alternative utopian chronotope that interacts with the actual life in its radical
vision of the interdependence of the self and the universe, a vision that destabilizes
the repressive social system.
In sum, Woolfs critical distance from the dogmatic prescription in various
utopian discourses for an ideal society located in a distant, static time and space
drives her to seek alternative utopia. Eruptive moments of being in Woolfs writing
enacts utopia that intervenes into the production of a more liberating social space
in its blurring of egotistic and repressive boundaries between beings and its fight
with imagined closure.
- ISSN
- 1598-3021
- Language
- Korean
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