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1、ANINTERTEXTUALSTUDYOFTHEHOURSANDMRS.DALLOWAY姓名：齐晓辉学号：3112011198专业：商务英语课程：英美文学选读指导老师：杨晓霖完成日期：2013年12月28日ANINTERTEXTUALSTUDYOFTHEHOURSANDMRS.DALLOWAYAbstract：MichaelCunningham’sTheHourshasbeentreatedasthecontemporaryreviewandrevisionofVirginiaWoolf’sMrs.Dalloway.Despiteitsinter-textswithotheranteriorw
2、orkssuchasthediariesandlettersofVirginiaWoolf,DorisLessing’sTheGoldenNotebookandtoRoomNineteen,Mrs.Dallowayremainsthecentralsourceforhisfiction.Byentitlinghisnovel“TheHours”—oneofthetitlesWoolfconsideredforhernovelinitsearlystages,CunninghammanipulatesMrs.Dallowayinhis“Mrs.Woolf”,“Mrs.Brown”and“Mrs.
3、Dalloway”,eitherasthethreenarrativestrandsorasthreemajorcharacters.Besides,heexpressedhisviewpointaboutsomethemes,suchasthemeofdeath,responsetolife,andinfusedhisownconceptioninsomeimages,likepartiesandflowers,allofwhichcanbetracedbacktoWoolf’stext.Inaddition,Cunninghamalsoshowshisindebtednessasapost
4、modernistwritertohismodernistcanonbyemployingsimilartechniquessuchasthetechniqueofstreamofconsciousness.Byadoptingandadaptingtheanteriortextinavarietyofways,Cunninghamweavestheintertextualelementsinhisownwritingandcreatesaninnovativetext.Adoptingthetheoryofintertextualitythisthesisisintendedtoexplor
5、etheintertextualconnectionbetweenthetwotextsandinvestigatehowCunninghammanipulatesandtransformstheanteriortextsand,accordingly,establishesatwo-wayrelationshipbetweenhimselfandWoolf.KeyWords:intertextuality,Kristeva,Mrs.Dalloway,VirginiaWoolf,TheHours,MichaelCunninghamIntroduction:Intertextualityisth
6、eshapingofatextmeaningbyanothertext.Intertextualfiguresinclude:allusion,quotation,calque,plagiarism,translation,pasticheandparody.Anexampleofintertextualityisanauthor’sborrowingandtransformationofapriortextortoareader’sreferencingofonetextinreadinganother.Theterm“intertextuality”has,itself,beenborro
7、wedandtransformedmanytimessinceitwascoinedbypoststructuralistJuliaKristevain1966.AsphilosopherWilliamIrwinwrote,theterm“hascometohavealmostasmanymeaningsasusers,fromthosefaithfultoKristeva’soriginalvi
