Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse: An Introduction (1/3)

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Professor Timothy H. Wilson
Department of English, University of Ottawa

Detailed introduction to and analysis of Woolf's most beautiful novel. The lectures cover ways in which the novel can be seen as autobiographical. The relation of Woolf's fiction to Heidegger's phenomenology of time is explored. Woolf's narrative technique of "free indirect discourse" is examined. The lectures then systematically go through the novel highlighting key themes, such as: the quarrel of philosophy and poetry, the gathering together of phenomena that is the soul, the question of the meaning of life and Woolf's concept of "moments of being" as described in the novel.

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0:00 - Introduction
3:22 - On Virginia Woolf
7:25 - Plot Summary of the Novel
10:21 - Structure of the Novel
11:13 - Autobiography in the Novel
14:20 - On the Novel Form
19:11 - On Romanticism (reference to Gericault, The Raft of the Medusa and Wordsworth "Tintern Abbey")
23:19 - On Realism (reference to Millet, The Gleaners and Dickens Oliver Twist)
28:48 - On Modernism (reference to Duchamps, Nude Descending a Staircase and Joyce, Ulysses)
34:00 - Woolf's Narrative Technique (Free Indirect Discourse)
41:16 - The Condensation of Story Time

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