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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"To the Lighthouse"”.
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Mrs. Ramsay's Art in To the Lighthouse
<p>When Virginia Woolf discusses the struggles of women writers in <em>A Room of One’s Own</em> she points out that one of the greatest hindrances to women’s ability to write fiction, besides the criticism they will face, is the fact “that they had no tradition behind them, or one so short and …
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The mediation of consciousness in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
This study sets out to investigate, through close textual analysis, how a reader's conscious involvement both with the characters, and the world that they inhabit, is generated in Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, and how this is maintained through the novel. Chosen as a prototypical …
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Woolf's philosophy of literary subjectivity : Virginia Woolf's 'To the lighthouse' and Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist theory
Sartre's theory of existentialism is used as a lens to interpret Woolf's approach to literature as the philosophy of "literary subjectivity." The notion of subjectivity is explored within theoretical existentialism and then applied to Woolf's life and her moment of awakening to subjectivity. To the …
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VIRGINIA WOOLF'S USE OF THE PAST: THE EARLY CRITICISM TO "TO THE LIGHTHOUSE" (HISTORY, MODERNISM, WORLD WAR I)
… Virginia Woolf considered becoming a historian, and for several years after she began The Voyage Out, her criticism centered on historical and biographical subjects. Later she, alone among British novelists, combined history and modernist technique, most obviously in her last five novels. …
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MATERIAL MEDIATION: WOMEN, CONNECTION, AND VITAL MATERIALISM IN VIRGINIA WOOLF’S MRS DALLOWAY, TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, AND BETWEEN THE ACTS
Theories of materiality have long attempted to explain the importance of the nonhuman and to disrupt anthropocentric thinking. Recently, these theories have informed ecocritical approaches to literary analysis, including the works of Virginia Woolf, exploring the ways in which she portrays the …
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The immanent life of things : embodiment, materiality, and agency in Virginia Woolf’s “A sketch of the past,” and To the lighthouse
This report explores the agency of material entities in Virginia Woolf's autobiographically-influenced works, "A Sketch of the Past," and To the Lighthouse. It argues that Woolf's stream-of-consciousness aesthetics underscores the agency that material objects hold in, and via, human actions, …
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Kilea and a critical, reflective essay on Virginia Woolf's The Common Reader and To The Lighthouse, James Joyce's Ulysses and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
This thesis consists of two parts: a creative work and a reflective, critical essay. The creative work is a novel, entitled Kilea after the central character, who is a young girl brought to a Scottish island by a man she calls Father. The girl is haunted by visions of spirits, called ‘schie’, and …
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Becoming Light: Releasing Woolf from the Modernists Through the Theories of Giles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Critics of Virginia Woolf's fiction have tended to focus their arguments on one of the following five cruxes: Woolf's personal biography, the role of art, the nature of reality, the structure of her novels, or they focus their arguments on gender-based criticism. Often, when critics attempt to …
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"Pieces in a Pattern": Virginia Woolf and Family Memory
… Virginia Woolf and one memoir written by her father, Leslie Stephen, along with Woolf's novel, <em>To the Lighthouse</em>, I will investigate the memoir genre, particularly in the context of understanding a shared history. These four texts provide a means of analyzing how texts form a discourse …
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A Way to Water
The completion of an original creation, a novel titled <italic>A Way to Water</italic>, and a contextual analysis of the four novels that informed the creation of the novel--<italic>Frankenstein</italic>, <italic>The Street</italic>, <italic>Native Speaker,</italic>, and <italic>To the …
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Moments of Being: Beauty in Virginia Woolf's Works
This thesis seeks to explore how Virginia Woolf depicts beauty in the literary scenes, characters, and language in her fictional works. In The Voyage Out (1915), Woolf writes, “When one gave up seeing the beauty that clothed things, this was the skeleton beneath” (12). In this passage, Woolf is …
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Moments of Being: Beauty in Virginia Woolf's Works
This thesis seeks to explore how Virginia Woolf depicts beauty in the literary scenes, characters, and language in her fictional works. In The Voyage Out (1915), Woolf writes, “When one gave up seeing the beauty that clothed things, this was the skeleton beneath” (12). In this passage, Woolf is …
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THE VICTORIAN HERITAGE OF VIRGINIA WOOLF: THE EXTERNAL WORLD IN HER NOVELS (TIME, SETTING, COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE, SOCIETY)
Woolf's Victorian background made her ambivalent towards the external world of time, place, history, society, physical phenomena, and language. The Victorian Age stressed factualism, time, and place, embracing society and rejecting individuality, emotion, and aestheticism. Woolf's father enforced …
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Sapphic reflections of feminine creative power and male interruption in the works of Virginia Woolf
With queer theory and gender studies, the knowledge that Virginia Woolf was probably bisexual has come to the forefront of scholarship concerning the writer and her works. With queer theory has come an interest in Sapphism, a term evoking Sappho, the only female lyric poet for whom any poetry …
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Mourning Gendered Discipline: Virginia Woolf and the Modern Elegy
The thesis defines Woolf's modernization of elegy from the perspective of gender. Western men and women have been trained to obey two distinct sets of codes in traditional mourning culture and have experienced differently problematic cultural sanctions in responding to loss. This study explores how …
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Woolf and Freud: A dialogue between Woolf's fiction and psychanalytic theory
It is the principal aim of this thesis to consider a dialogue that exists between Woolf's fiction and psychoanalytic theory, namely Freud's theories on sexual identity that were being published by Woolf's own Hogarth Press much around the same time as her earlier works. It is the contention of this …
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Weaving the Fabric of Reality: Consciousness in the Novels of Virginia Woolf
The purpose of this thesis is to track Virginia Woolf's enactment of conscious experience over the course of her 3 most consciousness forward novels, To the Lighthouse (1927), The Waves (1931), and Mrs. Dalloway (1925). This thesis aims to examine Woolf's ideas and theories about individual …
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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
One of the ways to understand literary modernism is to see it as a response to the crisis of Western ocularcentrism. First taking up E. M. Forster as a main figure and later shifting its point of focus to Virginia Woolf and finally to a contemporary author Zadie Smith, this dissertation examines …
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Fog Tropes: A social and cultural history of the foghorn
This thesis considers the interconnectedness of sound (the foghorn), weather (fog) and place (the coast) through interrogating the foghorn’s role as a sonic marker along British coastlines, from the end of the 19th century to its decline a century later. Foghorns are the sonic equivalent to the …
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Bored As Hell: Reading Boredom in Modern Literature
… of boredom in modern literature. It aims to understand boredom outside of scientific explanatory models, which often produce a list of causes and effects in a diagnostic language. I ask, what can literary depictions of boredom tell us about boredom in a way that scientific explanations …
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