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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Lily Briscoe"”.
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Mrs. Ramsay's Art in To the Lighthouse
… in the house, and her influence over the painter Lily Briscoe, whom many critics consider to be a surrogate daughter to Mrs. Ramsay. Lily cannot exist without Mrs. Ramsay and not because she is motivated by a desire to rebel against Mrs. Ramsay’s angel in the house, but because Mrs. Ramsay is the …
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Mourning Gendered Discipline: Virginia Woolf and the Modern Elegy
… is challenged by Woolf in her representation of Lily Briscoe and Septimus Warren Smith's mourning in To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway. Through the characterization of Lily--a female mourner who makes efforts to control grief, to reject the legacy left by the dead, and to consolidate her own …
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MATERIAL MEDIATION: WOMEN, CONNECTION, AND VITAL MATERIALISM IN VIRGINIA WOOLF’S MRS DALLOWAY, TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, AND BETWEEN THE ACTS
… and mothers, the single and independent women Lily Briscoe and Miss La Trobe are afforded greater opportunities to disrupt normal thinking. Their shared “anticipatory readiness” results in glimpses of what Woolf calls, in Three Guineas, a “Society of Outsiders”; independent women who refuse to …
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Sight and Knowledge Disconnected: The Epistemology of the Visual and the Ideological Gaze in the Novels of E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf
… concept of sight as physical. It culminates with Lily Briscoe the painter’s effort to seize her vision in To the Lighthouse (1927), onto which Woolf may have projected her own venture, which was to grow out of the realist method of writing. The last chapter casts light on a moment that could be …