READING VIRGINIA WOOLF’S TO THE LIGHTHOUSE FROM THE LANDSCAPE CRITICISM THEORY
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18173/2354-1067.2024-0021Keywords:
Virginia Woolf, landscape criticism, geographical-environmental landscape, landscape of mindAbstract
Landscape in literature is a form of text; it contains many layers of meaning and always invites the reader to be creative. Applying the landscape criticism theory to study the case of Virginia Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse is a new approach to a work that has already received a lot of attention from scholars worlwide. Besides the main approach of landscape criticism, the article applies the socio-historical method to decode individual lives in the flow of history, and the systematic method to systematize the research problem, combined with survey and analysis operations to answer the research questions. The article points out the interactions and connections between humans and landscape in two aspects: geographical-environmental landscape and landscape of the mind, thereby helping readers go deeper into the writer's artistic world, which is extremely rich and full of complexity.
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