ENG328Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: To The Lighthouse
To The Lighthouse
Mrs. Ramsay's visionary moment in Ch. 7
World is a place of suffering
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Individual moment of moment
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Communal moment of being in Ch. 17
Mrs. Ramsay who initiates the transition
Uses the fluidity of life as her subject matter
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Mr. Banks says the dinner is a triumph
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Believing that marriage is a cure-all for everyone
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All participate in this moment of coherence
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An island of civilised order and manner
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World of inner time v. outer time
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8 hours takes up 60% of the novel
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Narration over succession
Ratio of discourse time v. story time
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Mrs. Ramsay killed off in square brackets
Very effective but also a lil offensive
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Part 3 deals with 5 hours
92% of the book deals with 13/14 hours of time
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10 years dealt with in the last 8%
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Almost the whole novel encapsulated in the opening paragraphs
We begin in the middle of things
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Periodic sentence - holds the meaning back until the very end
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Section 1, part 5
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Time is not presented as a linear sequence
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Lecture 23
Monday, December 5, 2016
2:12 PM
