![]() ![]() ![]() Genre: Modernism/Stream-of-consciousness.This is an attempt to represent the multiple, overlapping, differently focused, and expressed layers of consciousness that James Joyce foresaw when he decided to center all of the action in his novel ‘Ulysses’ (1922) on a single day. The action in each of the two longer sections, “The Window” and “The Lighthouse,” unfolds over a single day. ‘To the Lighthouse’ is a very meticulous body of work. Similar to ‘To the Lighthouse,’ the focus of consciousness in them swings from one character to the next, from their current impressions of the outside world to their inner lives, associations, and memories. Dalloway’ (1925) had previously put to the test what readers thought fiction to be like. In her two earlier books, ‘Jacob’s Room’ (1922) and ‘Mrs. Virginia Woolf published her fifth book, ‘To the Lighthouse,’ in 1927. ![]()
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