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“I want to criticize the social system, and to show it at work,
at its most intense.” Virginia Woolf‘s provocative statement
about her intentions in writing Mrs. Dalloway
has regularly been ignored by the critics, since it
5 highlights an aspect of her literary interests very different
from the traditional picture of the “poetic” novelist
concerned with examining states of reverie and vision and
with following the intricate pathways of individual
consciousness. But Virginia Woolf was a realistic as well
10 as a poetic novelist, a satirist and social critic as well
as a visionary: literary critics‘ cavalier dismissal
of Woolf‘s social vision will not withstand scrutiny.
In her novels, Woolf is deeply engaged by the questions
of how individuals are shaped (or deformed) by
15 their social environments, how historical forces
impinge on people‘s lives, how class, wealth, and
gender help to determine people‘s fates. Most of her
novels are rooted in a realistically rendered social
setting and in a precise historical time.
(163 words)
9. In the first paragraph of the passage, the author‘s
attitude toward the literary critics mentioned can
best be described as
(A) disparaging
(B) ironic
(C) facetious
(D) skeptical but resigned
(E) disappointed but hopeful
10. It can be inferred from the passage that the most
probable reason Woolf realistically described the
social setting in the majority of her novels was
that she
(A) was aware that contemporary literary critics
considered the novel to be the most
realistic of literary genres
(B) was interested in the effect of a person‘s
social milieu on his or her character and
actions
(C) needed to be as attentive to detail as
possible in her novels in order to support
the arguments she advanced in them
(D) wanted to show that a painstaking fidelity
in the representation of reality did not in
any way hamper the artist
(E) wished to prevent critics from charging that
her novels were written in an ambiguous
and inexact style
11. In the context of the passage, “poetic” is closest in
meaning to
○A socioeconomic
○B realistic
○C political
○D visionary
○E literary |
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