英文摘要 |
This essay is derived from one of the case studies comprising in “Intertextuality and Feminism in Postmodern Fiction,” a graduate course that the present writer offered at Fall Semester of the 2000thAcademic Year in the Graduate Institute of English Literature at Chinese Culture University.1 Our discussions focused largely on what David Cowart calls “host” and “guest” texts, and with somewhat greater emphasis on the dynamics of contemporary literary renewal. Michael Cunningham’s The Hourswas chosen to be included in the seven postmodern fictions researched and lectured in the very semester because the lecturer of this course was invited to write an annotated preface to the Chinese translation edition ofVirginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, the “host text” of The Hours, when the “guest text” itself was awarded the 1999thPulitzer Prize for Fiction.2 The present study examines the reconfigured texts in Mrs. Dallowayand The Hoursin the base of David Cowart’s theories and reveals the three women’s stories of hours that display the fundamental solitude in the face of disaster and despair. |