The study applies the reader-response critical approach to explain the significance of Woolf’s metaphoric narration in achieving specific interactions and meanings within her readers’ minds. This study examines conceptual, symbolic narration in Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and The Waves. The Waves from a Reader-response perspective May 2020 Pp.56 -68Ĭonceptual Symbolic Narration in Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and It was adapted to film in 1983 by Hugh Stoddart, directed by Colin Gregg, and produced by Alan Shallcross.AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies, Volume 4, Number2. In 2005, the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels since 1923. It was named by Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. With her prosperous upper middle class academic background of the late Victorian establishment, Virginia Woolf is always walking a tight-rope in her desire to get away from it and portray ordinary people as a novelist should, hence the mixture of respect and irony with which she surveys its security and solid values” (Connolly). To the Lighthouse was “written at the height of her luminous Impressionist vision… It is the sunniest of her books and shows the obsession with rendering the passage of time which dominated her later work. “In its portrayal of life… it gives us an interlude of vision that must stand at the head of all Virginia Woolf’s work” (New York Times). Dalloway and three years before The Waves, To the Lighthouse “displays Woolf’s technique of narrating through stream of consciousness and imagery at its most assured, rich, and suggestive” (Drabble, 990). Rare and desirable, especially in this condition and with noted provenance. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Paepcke, along with her husband Walter were philanthropists best noted for founding the Aspen Institute and the Aspen Skiing Company in the early 1950s, both of which helped transform the town of Aspen, Colorado into an international resort destination and popularize the sport of skiing in the United States. From the library of Elizabeth Paepcke, with her signature in pencil to the front free endpaper.
Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with light rubbing and wear to the crown of the spine.
London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1927.įirst edition of one of Woolf’s most popular and acclaimed major novels, in the extremely rare original dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, Woolf’s sister.
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