버지니아 울프의 “바로 그 지점”: 일반 독자의 선물의 독서법과 독특성의 행복론
On "The Very Spot" in Virginia Woolf's Advice: The Reading Method as Gift and Happiness of Singularity
- 발행
- 2009
- 소속·발행
- 아주대학교
- 출처
- 국내 KCI
- UCI
- G704+INS000001444-ART001352277
- 원문등록
- 2009-06-30
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개념
키워드
the common reader, reading, gift, becoming-author, creativity, singularity, happiness (일반 독자, 읽기, 선물, 작가-되기, 창조성, 독특성, 행복), the common reader, reading, gift, becoming-author, creativity, singularity, happiness (일반 독자, 읽기, 선물, 작가-되기, 창조성, 독특성, 행복)
초록
By locating Virginia Woolf’s “How One Should Read a Book,” which can be called ‘the common reader’s manifesto of reading,’ in the context of her other works such as “Happiness” and A Room of One’s Own, this paper aims to examine how the notions of ‘the reading method as gift’ and ‘the happiness of singularity’ are formulated and presented in the essay. Woolf’s reading method, based on her profound ethical and ontological understanding of the relationship between the author and the reader, is structured as the relation of the gift. Woolf suggests becoming-author as the key element in her reading method of gift. Becoming- author, as the reader’s proper response to the gift given by the author, is comprised of two stages; the first one is to allow ourself to be open to properly receive the gift from the author by eliminating the closed ego. Based on this reception, the readers should furthermore transform the gift into the source of his or her own creativity through the diverse experimentations of the author’s language. Such a form of creativity serves as a substantial foundation for the joyful reading occurring in Woolf’s reading as gift.
 Of interest here is that the joy of rea