『출항』과 『올랜도 』에 나타난 생태적 경험과 권력
Ecological Experience and Power in The Voyage Out and Orlando
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This essay applies an ecocritical approach to examining power relations represented in Virginia Woolf’s novels, The Voyage Out and Orlando. The rise of ecocriticism in recent literary studies is largely owing to the increasing public awareness of climate change and of the loss of biodiversity, and draws attention to the mutually constructive or destructive relationship between culture and the physical environment. Alongside a group of other recent critics, I argue that ecocritical readings need to provide more than recognizing the agency of nonhuman beings and the interdependence of all (non)human beings that comprise the environmental whole. I explore in Woolf’s novels the relations of power through which ecological experience, knowledge, and taste are enjoyed and appropriated. Woolf does not see in ecology or ecological life itself a liberatory potential or transcendental standpoint; instead, she describes evolving workings of power as it relies on those aspects of the environment which are becoming relevant to humans’ social relations during the Anthropocene. Thanks to their extended spatial and temporal settings respectively, The Voyage Out and Orlando combine to demonstrate how existing power structures mediate ecological experience and unevenly distribute effects, both positive or negative, of environmental changes to human beings.
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This essay applies an ecocritical approach to examining power relations represented in Virginia Woolf’s novels, The Voyage Out and Orlando. The rise of ecocriticism in recent literary studies is largely owing to the increasing public awareness of climate change and of the loss of biodiversity, and draws attention to the mutually constructive or destructive relationship between culture and the physical environment. Alongside a group of other recent critics, I argue that ecocritical readings need to provide more than recognizing the agency of nonhuman beings and the interdependence of all (non)human beings that comprise the environmental whole. I explore in Woolf’s novels the relations of power through which ecological experience, knowledge, and taste are enjoyed and appropriated. Woolf does not see in ecology or ecological life itself a liberatory potential or transcendental standpoint; instead, she describes evolving workings of power as it relies on those aspects of the environment which are becoming relevant to humans’ social relations during the Anthropocene. Thanks to their extended spatial and temporal settings respectively, The Voyage Out and Orlando combine to demonstrate how existing power structures mediate ecological experience and unevenly distribute effects, both positive or negative, of environmental changes to human beings.
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