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Нижеследующий отрывок один из типичных примеров, которые вы встретите в данном разделе.
Все это произносится в обычной скорости с американским произношением, хотя бывают
случаи и британского или австралийского произношения.
"In Jacob's Room, the novel preceding Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf works with many of the
same themes she later expands upon in Mrs. Dalloway. To Mrs. Dalloway, she added the
theme of insanity. As Woolf stated, "I adumbrate here a study of insanity and suicide; the
world seen by the sane and the insane side by side." However, even the theme that would lead
Woolf to create a double for Clarissa Dalloway can be viewed as a progression of other similar
ideas cultivated in Jacob's Room. Woolf's next novel, then, was a natural development from
Jacob's Room, as well as an expansion of the short stories she wrote before deciding to make
Mrs. Dalloway into a full novel. However, it should be stressed that Woolf's statement "I want
to criticize the social system, and to show it at work, at its most intense" has been regularly
been ignored by the critics since it highlights an aspect of her literary interests very different
from the traditional picture of the "poetic" novelist concerned with examining states of
day-dreamingand with exploring the complex path of self-consciousness. But it shouldn't be
ignored that Woolf was also a realistic novelist and a social critic. Among Woolf's lterary
models were Checkov and Chaucer, both very acute social observers..."
1 Where is this lecture probably taking place?
O At a Women's Right convention
O At a seminar on S. Freud
O In a Modern Literature classroom
O In a Social Science classroom
2 What is the purpose of this lecture?
O To discuss the reverie of Woolf's novels
O To give a chrological history of Woolf's work
O To discuss different Woolf's involvement with civil rights movements
O To stress a little known aspect of Woolf's literary work
Ответ
1) In a Modern Literature classroom; 2) to stress a little known aspect of Woolf's literary work
Нижеследующий отрывок один из типичных примеров, которые вы встретите в данном разделе.
Все это произносится в обычной скорости с американским произношением, хотя бывают
случаи и британского или австралийского произношения.
"In Jacob's Room, the novel preceding Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf works with many of the
same themes she later expands upon in Mrs. Dalloway. To Mrs. Dalloway, she added the
theme of insanity. As Woolf stated, "I adumbrate here a study of insanity and suicide; the
world seen by the sane and the insane side by side." However, even the theme that would lead
Woolf to create a double for Clarissa Dalloway can be viewed as a progression of other similar
ideas cultivated in Jacob's Room. Woolf's next novel, then, was a natural development from
Jacob's Room, as well as an expansion of the short stories she wrote before deciding to make
Mrs. Dalloway into a full novel. However, it should be stressed that Woolf's statement "I want
to criticize the social system, and to show it at work, at its most intense" has been regularly
been ignored by the critics since it highlights an aspect of her literary interests very different
from the traditional picture of the "poetic" novelist concerned with examining states of
day-dreamingand with exploring the complex path of self-consciousness. But it shouldn't be
ignored that Woolf was also a realistic novelist and a social critic. Among Woolf's lterary
models were Checkov and Chaucer, both very acute social observers..."
1 Where is this lecture probably taking place?
O At a Women's Right convention
O At a seminar on S. Freud
O In a Modern Literature classroom
O In a Social Science classroom
2 What is the purpose of this lecture?
O To discuss the reverie of Woolf's novels
O To give a chrological history of Woolf's work
O To discuss different Woolf's involvement with civil rights movements
O To stress a little known aspect of Woolf's literary work
Ответ
1) In a Modern Literature classroom; 2) to stress a little known aspect of Woolf's literary work
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