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題名 Metaphor of Travel: Virginia Woolf`s Orlando (1928).
作者 胡錦媛
Hu, Chin-Yuan
貢獻者 英文系
關鍵詞 Orlando/Orlando;travel;metaphor;becomings;boundary crossing;Nomadology
日期 2013
上傳時間 15-Oct-2014 11:06:44 (UTC+8)
摘要 Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography (1928) is a travel narrative about Orlando’s becoming-woman through boundary crossings. The time of Orlando’s life spans 340 years; the places of Orlando’s travel bridge “the familiar” (England) and “the foreign” (Turkey). Appropriately enough, travel being a metaphor of boundary crossing witnesses the process of Orlando’s gender crossing, which happens after his spatial boundary crossing from Turkey to England. That Orlando has to go through the other place/culture (the foreign) to “become a woman” so that s/he eventually “becomewoman” suggests that the tradition of English literature and culture needs a new mode to transform its desire, experience and knowledge. And this alternative is not the feminine mode opposing the masculine mode in the Oedipus structure, but the molecular mode that transcends the male/female binary opposition. The present essay explores the metaphor of travel in Orlando in the light of Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of nomadology. In view of Orlando’s boundary crossings and constant becomings, the present essay argues that Orlando/Orlando is a prototype of nomadic travel, and eventually a metaphor of travel.
關聯 Coldnoon: Travel Poetics, 2(4), 110-132
資料類型 article
dc.contributor 英文系en_US
dc.creator (作者) 胡錦媛zh_TW
dc.creator (作者) Hu, Chin-Yuanen_US
dc.date (日期) 2013en_US
dc.date.accessioned 15-Oct-2014 11:06:44 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 15-Oct-2014 11:06:44 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 15-Oct-2014 11:06:44 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/70593-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography (1928) is a travel narrative about Orlando’s becoming-woman through boundary crossings. The time of Orlando’s life spans 340 years; the places of Orlando’s travel bridge “the familiar” (England) and “the foreign” (Turkey). Appropriately enough, travel being a metaphor of boundary crossing witnesses the process of Orlando’s gender crossing, which happens after his spatial boundary crossing from Turkey to England. That Orlando has to go through the other place/culture (the foreign) to “become a woman” so that s/he eventually “becomewoman” suggests that the tradition of English literature and culture needs a new mode to transform its desire, experience and knowledge. And this alternative is not the feminine mode opposing the masculine mode in the Oedipus structure, but the molecular mode that transcends the male/female binary opposition. The present essay explores the metaphor of travel in Orlando in the light of Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of nomadology. In view of Orlando’s boundary crossings and constant becomings, the present essay argues that Orlando/Orlando is a prototype of nomadic travel, and eventually a metaphor of travel.en_US
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dc.relation (關聯) Coldnoon: Travel Poetics, 2(4), 110-132en_US
dc.subject (關鍵詞) Orlando/Orlando;travel;metaphor;becomings;boundary crossing;Nomadologyen_US
dc.title (題名) Metaphor of Travel: Virginia Woolf`s Orlando (1928).en_US
dc.type (資料類型) articleen