On the Writing of Community and Its Musical Representation in The Waves

Journal of Literature and Music Studies

JLMS, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026, pp. 76-85.

Print ISSN: 3134-8130; Online ISSN: 3134-8149

Journal homepage: https://www.jlmsjournal.com

DOI: https://doi.org/10.64058/jlwe260107wcmrw 


论伍尔夫《海浪》中共同体书写的音乐性表征

 

周博佳(Zhou Bojia

 

摘要:传统对伍尔夫作品的音乐化叙事研究主要聚焦于跨媒介叙事效果上,而较少关注其声音关系中蕴含的共同体思辨。以阿多诺为代表的音乐社会学对总体性和同一性的批判,为小说音乐与共同体研究提供了研究范式。在这一视角下,《海浪》既展现了古典音乐与现代主义音乐并存的美学特征,也蕴含了现代主义共同体中共同与差异并存的复杂辩证关系。伍尔夫试图通过文学想象一种非同一性的共同体形态,即一种能够容纳差异与独异性的开放结构,由此体现出现代主义作家对共同体问题的反思与追求。

关键词:伍尔夫;海浪;音乐社会学;共同体

作者简介:周博佳,河北师范大学外国语学院讲师, 南京大学文学博士。研究方向:现当代英国文学与西方文论, 电子邮箱:zhoubojia2014@163.com

 

Title: On the Writing of Community and Its Musical Representation in The Waves

Abstract: Traditional studies on the musicalization of Woolf’s works have focused on cross-media narrative effects, while paying less attention to the reflections on community embedded in the relations among narrative voices. The critique of totality and identity advanced by the sociology of music, represented by Adorno, offers a critical framework for examining the relationship between music and community in the novel. From this perspective, The Waves not only presents the aesthetic characteristics of both classical and modernist music, but also embodies the complex dialectic of modernist community where commonality and difference coexist. Woolf attempts, through literary imagination, to envision a non-homogeneous form of community: an open structure capable of accommodating difference and singularity. In this sense, the novel reflects a modernist writer’s sustained reflection on and pursuit of the question of community.

Keywords: Woolf; The Waves; sociology of music; community

Author Biography: Zhou Bojia, Lecturer of School of Foreign Languages, Hebei Normal University, PhD in Literature, Nanjing University. Research area: modern and contemporary British literature and western literary theory. E-mail: zhoubojia2014@163.com.

 



 Received: 30 Mar 2026 / Revised: 10 Apr 2026 / Accepted: 29 Apr 2026 / Published online: 30 May 2026 / Print published: 30 Jun 2026.

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