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... in To the Lighthouse uses the logic of the gothic sublime as a model for exploring human character. The gothic sublime illuminates in Woolf's theory of consciousness a striking functional resemblance between the mimetic realism of photography and the abstract representations of formalist art. By virtue...

...Frances L. Restuccia This essay reads To the Lighthouse through the lens of Giorgio Agamben's Pauline conception of messianic time and suggests that we reconsider the genre of modernist novels in light of such a “messianic aesthetic.” Insofar as To the Lighthouse presents chronological time...

... . ———. 1927 . To the Lighthouse . New York : Harcourt . ———. 1948 . The Common Reader: First Series . London : Hogarth . ———. 1982 . Melymbrosia: An Early Version of “The Voyage Out.” Edited by DeSalvo Louise . New York : New York Public Library . ———. 1985 . Moments of Being...

... the finely tuned readings of the individual chapters to more general claims about form as object and method. From James's love of plastic form, Lewis moves in the second chapter to Woolf's desire for still life, focusing exclusively on Cézanne and To the Lighthouse . Lewis challenges received...

... more than is disclosed by the typology of "historical events." Nostromo marks the intersection of converging and diverging narrative pulses. He begins in legend and ends in an all too ignominious death, sneaking around the lighthouse at night, shot with contempt by old Giorgio in a case...

... Text to Tableau: Ekphrastic Enchantment in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse.” Studies in the Novel 38 , no. 3 : 304 – 26 . Stevenson Randall . 1993 . A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-Century Novel in Britain . Lexington : University of Kentucky Press . Swift Graham...

... in another. 368 GENRE Depicted are such unremarkable subjects such as Mother and child, Family in front of their home, Lighthouse in Maine, and Two fire fighters at work.2 Such photographs can be inserted in articles or featured on posters where they assume...

... “she.” The mother both hushes and is hushed. This struggle to produce mirrors Lily Briscoe’s quest to finish her painting in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (1927), another woman-­authored text where the attempt to reproduce the mother becomes a central struggle. This hybrid image/text concludes...

... to accept the low (a baseball, a bowl), which allows alternative narration to be a productive means of storytelling. This strategy surely would have been viewed as infelicitous earlier in the century, when now canonical modernist works such as To the Lighthouse, The Sound and the Fury, and Ulysses...

... of wonder. At first glance this town seems more Norman Rockwell than Dürer, with its unthreatening “fife- and- drum” storm, in which “it is a privilege to see so / much confusion” within 62 GENRE an overall order and harmony (ibid There is a lighthouse and a town clock...

...) One is reminded here of Virginia Woolf s assertion, in her late autobiogra- phy "A Sketch of the Past," that writing To the Lighthouse was the ritual whereby she raised the ghost of her mother, Julia Stephen, the better to exorcise her from her life ("it is perfectly true that she obsessed me...

... as the Communist Lighthouse writing sketches for magazines and periodicals that detailed the daily operations of the farm, in which he also participated. But the political interventions of Factography are not reducible to the active role of the subject. The “object” of Factography — the “fact...

... of the familiar patriotic song, she came to rule the waves.3 Accordingly, such devices as the lighthouse, the outward-bound ship, the globe, and the lion—yet another emblem of Britain—often appear as her accessories. Although the original Restoration coinage model was royal mistress Frances Stewart (later...

... to over- shadow Suzy s depressingly bleak world. In a train to Montauk, Suzy imagines their new home, a pastel oceanfront house they have just moved into. Dad s new- est whim, the beach, the lighthouse, the moonlight, the edge of New York. Oh, who would ve ever thought, Mom would say, laughing, picking...