Premium Content The Unseen Table: Woolf’s Critique of Philosophy and the Possibilities of Female Subjectivity in To the Lighthouse
By Anonymous - April 06, 2009
The construction of subjectivity in relation to the “real” world of objects has long been a concern for critics of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. In his seminal work, Mimesis, Eric Auerbach argues that the novel inverts the conventional relation in fiction between inner and outer events: “In Virginia Woolf’s case the exterior events have…
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