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버지니아 울프의 여성적 글쓰기 : 『 파도 』 와 『 막간 』 의 두 겹 언어
Virginia Woolf`s L`ecriture Feminine : Two - fold language in The Waves and Between the Acts
김희정(Hee Chung Kim)
현대영미소설 5권 2호 75-96(22pages)
UCI I410-ECN-0102-2009-840-005751235

The narrative methods of The Waves and Beween the Acts tell us that Virginia Woolf reaches for a condition of poetry and her texts are literary equivalent of Kristeva`s poetic revolution in language. Pointing out the danger of being `this or that` in both life and narrative, she praises the concept of `difference` and embraces everything in life-men and women, presence and absence, stasis and flux, language and silence. That is why the recent idea of deconstruction is helpful to understand Woolf`s texts. Woolf`s style is marked with alternating rhythm. She defines a two-beat rhythm of `in and out`, `up and down`, and `one, two; one, two` as a women`s linguistic strategy. Recognizing the limit of symbolic language, Woolf tries to escape the alphabet and speaks in silence or musical rhythm. That is how she highlights `the feminine` which has been considered as something absent in male-centered culture and claims that female way of expression involves more silence than words. Women`s silence in The Waves and Beween the Acts is not viewed as a sign of personal or social oppression, but as a feminine space with a new psychic and narrative life in which women think and dream. Though Woolf finds the female voice in silence, however, she is never fixed in the choraic space without words. She never completely leaves the boundary of the symbolic and continues the rhythm of `coming` and `going.` As her feminism is something beyond the inverted sexism finding a desirable mode of being and writing in androgyny, she always comes back to the symbolic and writes in the in-between. Woolf`s l`ecriture feminine, therefore, has to be read as a kind of strategy to emphasize the `feminine` now silenced and repressed in our patriarchal society.

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