چکیده مقاله
This paper focuses on Virginia Woolf’s 1888 1942 The Voyage Out 1915 through the ecocriticaltheories of Val Plumwood Reconnecting with nature is increasingly recognized as a positivecontribution to health and well being In Western culture, women are associated with nature and theyare devaluated; on the contrary, men are identified with culture Culture is separated from nature;likewise, the male is separated from the female and the male is superior to her Gender acts as anorganizing principle for a society due to the cultural meanings by which male or female comes intoexistence Therefore, it is the cultural patterns in a society which affirm the legitimacy of planninginitiatives for gender roles In the novel, Woolf expresses her idea implicitly about the position ofhuman beings who consider themselves in a higher rank of any other living beings or the essence ofexistence in terms of anthropocentric culture Woolf implies that women, nature, and environment areregarded as the Other and culture is associated with men to bring destruction to environment andcreate a wide gap between males and environment The main character Rachel Vinrace is caught inthe anthropocentric world built by men and culture in which women are lower than men Rachel triesto save herself by being close to nature
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نویسندگان
Ziba Roshanzamir
Ph D Candidate of English LiteratureDepartment of English Language and Literature, Borujerd Branch,Islamic Azad University, Borujerd, Iran
Leila BaradaranJamili
Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Borujerd Branch, Islamic AzadUniversity, Borujerd, Iran
Bahman Zarrinjooee
Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Borujerd Branch, Islamic AzadUniversity, Borujerd, Iran
Ardeshir Danesh
Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Borujerd Branch, Islamic AzadUniversity, Borujerd
شیوه ارجاع
Roshanzamir, Ziba and BaradaranJamili, Leila and Zarrinjooee, Bahman and Danesh, Ardeshir,1403,Environment: Culture, Nature, and Women in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out,20th International Conference on Language , Literature , Culture and History Studies
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مجموعه مقالات بیستمین کنفرانس بین المللی مطالعات زبان، ادبیات، فرهنگ و تاریخ18 آبان 1403