모더니즘 소설에 나타난 의식의 물질성 － 울프와 조이스를 중심으로

Abstract

This is a study on the materiality of mind and body in the novels of Woolf and Joyce. The modern novelists and their characters, in the face of the most uncertain and fluid times, seem to be fully conscious of the interaction and interdependence between body and mind consisting of the subject. Both Plato and Aristotle insist that the body is apt to prevent the human subject from seeing the true essential, that is, idea. They set body or matter beneath the spirit, which can be found in Descartes whose philosophy has been criticized by many scholars for its fundamental dualism. Bergson disrupts traditional concepts of body and consciousness, and spirit and material. He regards the body as an important medium between consciousness and outer world. In this regard, Bergson is similar to Bakhtin. Bakhtin emphasizes the importance of the body as a hole intermediating between the outer world and human consciousness, asserting inevitable interrelationships between spirit and body, the subject and the other, etc.In addition to Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, the modern novelists, such as Henry James and Joseph Conrad, seek to analyze and to prove the consciousness of human subject. Especially, Woolf and Joyce probe it with the technique of stream of consciousness. In their works are characters whose dialogic consciousness develops and enlightens their selves through body and outer matter.