生の円環 : 死に向かう影法師

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It is well- known that Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) lost her close relatives in her childhood. Starting with her mother's death in 1895, she suffered four losses only in ten years time. It was after another ten years that she deliberately got off the mark in publishing, occasionally being overwhelmed by her sad bereavement and obsessions by the deceased. Her first work, The Voyage Out was published in 1915 and the last, Between the Acts, in 1941. It seems to be greatly significant that all her days threatedned by death must have affected her works. In this article, I would like to examine the influence of terror on her concept of death. As the first step in our analysis, we will begin our descussion by considering how the `death' was viewd in the Christian society in the middle of the nineteenth century. Then, tracing the shadows of the she cast in the worls, I will explore what the `death'meant to Virginia Woolf and how she faced it, who finally chose to end her life with her own accord.
同志社女子大学の論文
2003-07-25