Abstract
Virginia Woolf’s novels focus on the truth of life and present the real form of life, and she has a deep sympathy towards human beings and a strong sense of social responsibility. Her works belong to ecological writing. To explore her novel in the light of eco-criticism, this paper aims at analyzing her harmonious ecological concept as anti-anthropocentrism and idea of equality for all creatures, which will promote the scope of eco-criticism studies and provide a new approach to interpret her works.
Highlights
Virginia Woolf endeavors to present the new form of novels, incorporating the form of music, painting and poetry into the literary creation, and she produces many avant-guarde novels which become classics, her keen perception for arts enlarges the vision of stream of consciousness novels
As one of the central figures in the Bloomsbury Group, Virginia Woolf was under the influence of Cambridge scholars especially Roger Fry and Painter Venessa Bell, and she knew how science had impact on philosophy and artistic criticism
Virginia Woolf saw the drive force of the economic interest and power in the capitalist society, and saw clearly the living condition of modern people in which they are isolated with nature and with themselves, so she said “human nature changed in 1910” [2] after she visited the post-impressionist exhibition
Summary
Virginia Woolf endeavors to present the new form of novels, incorporating the form of music, painting and poetry into the literary creation, and she produces many avant-guarde novels which become classics, her keen perception for arts enlarges the vision of stream of consciousness novels. Virginia Woolf’s ecological perspective in literary creation is based on her artistic pursuit She advocates that novels should adopt the “modern soul mode” [1], that is to underline the dominant position of people though true presentation of trace of thinking and impersonal characterization, surpassing the traditional “personal” expression and exhibiting the universal spiritual condition in the historical context. Neither the subject nor the object is in the dominant center, meanings are based on the understanding of the dynamic relationship, which is the deconstruction of the concept of center All these reflect the thought on the central position of man, and on the position of nature. Most of Virginia Woolf’s works are both experiments in literary forms and response to the thinking on ecological problem
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