scholarly journals Conceptual Symbolic Narration in Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and The Waves from a Reader-response perspective

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Said Ahmed Aboudaif
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Functional Role ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Specific Interactions ◽  
Symbolic Language ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
Reader Responses ◽  
The Waves

This study examines conceptual, symbolic narration in Virginia Woolf’s; To The Lighthouse and The Waves. The study applies the reader-response critical approach to explain the significance of Woolf’s metaphoric narration in achieving specific interactions and meanings within her readers’ minds. Firstly, it sorts out symbolic language in the two novels to figure out how readers receive them. The analysis shows the heavy use of conceptualized symbolic language to achieve particular meanings and create thematic responses. Secondly, the study clarifies the effect of the conceptual, symbolic narration in revealing the technical aspects in the novels both at the literal meaning and at the symbolic meaning. Thus, the study aims at explaining how the conceptual, symbolic narration plays a functional role in achieving reader-responses to enhance thematic purposes and ideas intended by the writer.

Outing the Perverse

2018 ◽  
pp. 251-268
Author(s):  
Leland S. Person
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Reader Responses ◽  
The Way

This reader-centered essay examines four of Poe’s murder tales (“The Black Cat,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Imp of the Perverse,” and “The Cask of Amontillado”) by focusing on the way Poe seduces readers into identifying with criminals. Using Poe’s concept of “perverseness”—the irresistible impulse to do what one should not—the essay examines the ways that Poe plays with perverseness as a means of manipulating reader response. The Imp impels confession in “Imp of the Perverse” but compels both murder and confession in “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” as perverseness becomes an authorial power. “The Cask of Amontillado” represents the culmination of Poe’s experiment with perverseness, as he manipulates reader responses through first, second, and third readings of the tale.

Biography and Autobiography

2021 ◽  
pp. 211-224
Author(s):  
Laura Marcus
Keyword(s):  
Life Writing ◽  
Crucial Aspect ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Milieu ◽  
The Waves ◽  
Jacob's Room

This chapter explores the centrality of biography and autobiography to Woolf’s reading and writing life, and to her cultural milieu, in which experiments in life-writing were a crucial aspect of the modernist reaction against the Victorian era. It examines Woolf’s deep engagement in her fiction with life-writing forms, from the bildungsroman of The Voyage Out to the play with conventional biographical forms of Jacob’s Room, Orlando, The Waves, and Flush and the autobiographical foundations of To the Lighthouse. It also examines her biography of Roger Fry, and her own experiment in memoir-writing, the posthumously published ‘A Sketch of the Past’, in the context of concerns with the nature of memory, identity, and sexuality.

scholarly journals Peristiwa Intifadah dalam Cerpen Li Man Nahmil Al-Rasas Karya Jihad Al-Rajbi

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (01) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Reni Ilmayanti
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Symbolic Language ◽  
Communication To The Public ◽  
The Public ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Small Stone

This paper examines a collection of short stories entitled: Liman nahmil al-Rasasah by Jihad Al-Rajbi>using the semiotic approach of Charles Sander Peirce. This paper intends to describe the symbolic meaning implicit in the text in expressing the reality of the events behind the Intifada in the Palestinian state presented in the short stories of Jihad Al-Rajbi. This research includes library research; by reviewing library materials, in the form of books, encyclopedias, journals and other sources relevant to the topic being studied. The results of the analysis found that the language used by the author in conveying communication to the public was a symbolic language, to deliver the reader to the context of the Palestinian people in the period 1967-1993. Bullet words (Al-Rasasah), small stone stones, children, mothers, al-Quds, seclusion is a symbol that is often repeated in short story narratives. This symbolizes the oppression of the Palestinian people over Israeli cruelty, so the word used as the parent title of the collection of short stories Intifadhah is the word bullet (Al-Rasasah).

scholarly journals Historical and Symbolic Aspects of Linguistic Representation of the World

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-71
Author(s):  
Margarita Ganyushina
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Symbolic Language ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
The World ◽  
World Image

The article is an attempt to offer a theoretical understanding of the notion of a “Linguistic world-image” (LWI) within symbolic contexts as represented in the current literature, define the symbol’s features, its influence on LWI in historic perspective, and investigate its functioning within idioms or metaphors. We have undertaken the review of previous LWI investigations and, as the methodological basis of our research, we have used ethno-semantic and linguistic-philosophical approaches to language; specifically, the method of multiple etymology, introduced by V. N. Toporov and developed by M.M. Makovsky, which permitted us to identify the correlation of LWI with linguistic signs as a carrier of symbolic meaning. It should be noted that studying symbolic language properties and linguistic signs within the linguistic world-image, which were not taken into account before, is conductive to a more profound comprehension of the correlation between language, culture, and mutual understanding index in the intercultural communication process.The LWI concept is considered as a subjective-objective dynamic multilevel construct, which presents its primary features through a lexical-semantic language system within a world and national culture formed as a result of the reflection of sensorial perception, facts, understanding and estimation of the objective phenomena in national linguistic consciousness, in the experience of correlation of language concepts, images and symbols throughout the cultural historical development of the language. Therefore, two approaches to studying LWI are evident - cognitive and cultural-philosophical - which are not so much conflicting as mutually reinforcing.

The Purple Triangle and Blue Madonnas: The Virgin Mary

2018 ◽  
pp. 165-185
Author(s):  
Jane de Gay
Keyword(s):  
Role Model ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Religious Art ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
The Waves ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines Woolf’s appreciation of the complex role played by the Virgin Mary in Western cultures, particularly as she has been represented in art from the Renaissance to the modernist era. The chapter shows that Woolf was deeply critical of the way in which society has used the Virgin Mary as an impossible role-model for women, but also interested in ways in which Mary can be regarded as an empowering figure. The chapter focuses particularly on Woolf’s allusions to the figure of the Madonna in Renaissance religious art in To the Lighthouse and The Waves, and also considers her encounters with ritual and art on her visits to Italy.

Reverend Gentlemen and Prophetesses

2018 ◽  
pp. 88-113
Author(s):  
Jane de Gay
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
Women's Ministry ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
Three Guineas ◽  
Between The Acts ◽  
The Waves ◽  
The Church ◽  
Critical Interest ◽  
English Heritage

This chapter reveals the extent of Woolf’s critical interest in the clergy. It demonstrates that the clergy remained important within middle-class life during Woolf’s lifetime and that Woolf reflected this in her novels. It draws attention to the element of social criticism in Woolf’s novels The Voyage Out, Jacob’s Room, Mrs Dalloway, The Waves, The Years and Between the Acts, as she represents the variety of roles played by the clergy: the cure of souls, the conduct of worship, the burial of the dead, and conserving English heritage and historical buildings. The chapter also examines Woolf’s detailed critique in Three Guineas of the decision of the Church of England to continue to exclude women from ordination in the Church Commissioners’ 1936 report The Ministry of Women. It also shows that Woolf was supportive of women’s ministry, both in her examination of the historical precedent for this in Three Guineas, and in her representation of Mrs Ramsay in To the Lighthouse as a prototype female priest.

“Such a Mix of Beauty and Horror”

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-56
Author(s):  
Lesley Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Narrow Range ◽  
Prose Poetry ◽  
Gerard Manley Hopkins ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
Important Resource ◽  
Between The Acts ◽  
The Waves

T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf demonstrate contrasting modes of Modernist response to the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins. While Eliot grudgingly acknowledged Hopkins’s innovations even as he dismissed him as a writer of narrow range and limited importance, Woolf’s response was robust and lasting. Close readings and textual analyses of To the Lighthouse, The Waves, and Between the Acts, as well as Woolf ’s diaries and letters, reveal that from 1919 onwards, Hopkins is never far from Woolf ’s modes of discourse, becoming an important resource as she developed her theory of “prose poetry” and worked to develop her own singular rhythms.

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