Abstract

Although scholarship has noted that the ‘faded brown book’ mentioned in Woolf’s The Years – in which the world is ‘nothing but thought’ – is a probable reference to the eighteenth-century philosopher George Berkeley, the full extent of Woolf’s adoption of Berkeleian ideas has not been accounted for. In this essay I argue that Woolf’s use of specifically Berkeleian images – including a coin-like moon and mind-dependent trees – feeds into a larger narrative technique in The Years relating to semblance: the way things seem or appear to be. Although The Years is sometimes understood as a comparatively ‘realist’ work by critics, I show that even its most apparently ‘objective’ scenes retain a semblance of subjectivity, upon which Woolf’s idiosyncratic realist mode depends. Reading Woolf alongside Berkeley, I develop a case study in the ways in which literary aesthetics can take up, and also challenge, philosophical theories of knowledge.

中文翻译：

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“就是思考，是吗？”：伯克利，唯心主义和伍尔夫的《岁月》

摘要

尽管学术界已经注意到，伍尔夫的《世界》一书中提到的“褪色的棕色书” （其中世界只是“无所不思”）可能是对18世纪哲学家乔治·伯克利的参考，伍尔夫对伯克利主义思想的全面接受尚未被考虑。在本文中，我认为伍尔夫使用伯克利主义的特定形象-包括像硬币一样的月亮和依赖心灵的树木-在《与外貌相关的年代》中成为一种更大的叙事技巧：事物的表象或表象。虽然岁月有时被评论家理解为相对“现实主义”的作品，我证明，即使是最明显的“客观”场景也保留了某种主观性，伍尔夫的特质现实主义模式也依赖于这种主观性。与伯克利一起阅读伍尔夫，我以文学美学可以吸收，也挑战知识的哲学理论的方式开展了案例研究。