China and the West

Zhang, Feng. De Wu'erfu 'Dai luo wei fu ren' de yi shu zheng ti gan yu yi shi liu xiao shuo jie gou [ID D31616].
Zhang focuses on the technique of stream of consciousness, but instead of relating Woolf's style to concepts of character complexity and multiple perspective, he is interested in the implications of stream of consciousness for the creation and reception of the work of art. Going beyond an explanation of Woolf's style also enables a creative enactment of the artist's emotion – de-personalized and fused with the feelings of her characters. In addistion, Zhang suggests that Woolf's style, by matching the psychological process of human aesthetic response, enables readers to recreate, according to their own experience, the novel's emotion. Stream of consciousness becomes the vehicle for the 'inexpressible internal emotion' that is the 'complete image' of the novel ; it is also the means of communication and connection between writer and reader. For Zhang, the aesthetic response includes the poeti and emotional and such dimensions are evident not only in what interests her in Woolf's writing but also in the way Zhang writes herself.