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The relationship between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Acknowledging their sisterhood, this paper focuses on their embrace of the biosphere, evidenced in the various images of the natural sphere scattered in their works. Both Woolf and Mansfield have a keen interest in small, obscure, and marginalized beings. The fly is in particular a recurrent image in their life and works. The image of the fly Mansfield frequently adopts reveals her feelings of loneliness and despair, accrued to her illness. In Woolf, flies often appear as oblique referrals to a resistance to patriarchal desire and a totalitarian narrative, as depicted in Orlando and in Jacob’s Room. We delve into Mansfield’s “The Fly” in parallel with Woolf’s “The Introduction” and “The New Dress,” focusing on the prevalent image of the fly. The eponymous hero of Mansfield’s “The Fly” exceeds its conventional place of a sacrificed small insect, disrupting the urban drama of paralysis. In Woolf’s “The Introduction,” we investigate the trope of butter/fly as revealed by the diminution of Lily, together with the im/proper position of woman in a male-oriented society. Another short story of Woolf’s, “The New Dress,” deals with a female protagonist who identifies herself with the wretched fly stuck to milk in the context of a bourgeois public sphere. Both Woolf and Mansfield reveal an animality already within our human sphere, and, at the same time, the irreducibility of the non-human world. The fly challenges our understanding of our place in the larger world, suggesting the power of otherness.
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버지니아 울프, 캐서린 맨스필드, 파리의 죽음, 「파리」, 「소개」, 「새 드레스」
