Premium Content Merging and Flowing: The Metaphor in To the Lighthouse
By Theoderek Wayne - September 18, 2001
From the invisible to the visible is but a step, and a very quick step at that. The task of the metaphor is to render concrete and palpable, through analogy, the abstract and unseen, and Virginia Woolf peppers To the Lighthouse, especially the largely interior "moments of being" dinner-party episode, with muscular metaphor and sinuous simile. Two…
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