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Her Room Nineteen:A Feminist Understanding of ‘Room’

  • 인문논총
  • 2014, 35(), pp.95-113
  • Publisher : Institute for Human studies, Kyungnam University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Published : October 31, 2014

Jeong, Mi ok 1

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ABSTRACT

This article explores the ways to understand feminist English literature by the film based on thenovels. The extension of feminist thoughts is expected in light of intertextuality. The film (The Hours byDaldry) and the novels (Mrs. Dalloway by Woolf and The Hours by Cunningham) are deconstructed andincorporated in the intertextual relations. It is shown that Cunningham’s work evokes a widerunderstanding of Woolf and other women writers. Accordingly, the intertextual relations representWoolf’s feminist understanding and the continuity after Woolf’s times. The film addresses a varietyof feminist issues beyond Woolf and Cunningham. It helps students understand feminist discourses,practices and feminist literary history. In the educational arena, a keyword room nineteen ispresented as a space of feminist understanding (gender ideology, professions for women and ideology ofmothering, and etc.). The metaphor of her room would cast new light on the feminist subjects forstudents. The comprehension of literature through well made movies can enforce the understandingof literature. This is another example to enlarge students’ cultural experiences and show their variousresponses and positions surrounding room . The intertextuality can be applied in pedagogy ofliterature courses. Therefore, external extension of humanities is expected in the literature class.

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