“지성의 실패”와 “자기만의 방” : 레씽의 『19호실로』에 관하여 = “A Failure in Intelligence” and “A Room of One's Own”: A Reading of Doris Lessing's “To Room Nineteen”

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper examines the theme of woman's retreat to “a room of one's own”, with emphasis on the imbalance between intelligence and feeling, in Doris Lessing's “To Room Nineteen”. Since Virginia Woolf highlighted the importance of “a room of one's own” as an indispensable condition conductive to women's writing of fiction in the early twenties century, the desire and demand for “a room of one's own” as an independent space of refuge and creation has greatly increased. Nonetheless, the aloneness or oneness in “a room of one's own” both reflects and results in a withdrawal from human relationships or action, an addiction to reverie, and sometimes a “suicidal vulnerability” as Elaine Showalter points out. Presenting itself as a story about “a failure in intelligence”, “To Room Nineteen” represents the ontological and epistemological fragmentation of a middle class heroine who ceaselessly tries to reason about the predicaments of her “intelligent” marriage life but ultimately fails. The significance of this story lies on its unique combination of two relevant narratives, the imbalance between intelligence and feeling, and the preponderance of “a room of one's own” which had a tilt to neurosis or withdrawal symptoms in the mid-twenties century European feminism discourses.

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