Journal of Research: THE BEDE ATHENAEUM

  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 1

Virginia Woolf's ‘to the Light House’: A Visual Hermeneutic

  • Author:
  • K.T. Babu
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 1 to 5

M.A. (USA) Ph.D, Principal, St. Aloysius College, Eithuruth PO, Thrissur, Kerala, India

Abstract

This paper centres its discussions on the interaction of visuality and textuality that contributes to the visual interpretation of Virginia Woolf's To The Light House. The novel is written in three parts. The first part takes place in one day in the life of the Ramsey family and their friends. Through the glimpses of “The Window”, the life of a family is revealed. It looks into the centrally positioned section of To the Lighthouse, that is, “Time Passes” in relation to the other two sections of the novel. The visual expressive mode of the novel manifests the very essence of the text in terms of an encounter between the visual and the verbal, the spatial and the temporal domains.

Keywords

Visual, textual, verbal, hermeneutic