Analysis Of Woolf's To The Lighthouse

The fact is that much has been said about Woolf’s literary career and works, and much about To the Lighthouse (1927), with regard to the different aspects of her works in general, and her style and stylistics in particular . Here, neither do I intend to repeat the said things with regard to her works, nor does the scope of this study allow me to go into detail to take into account these aspects. What I should like to say about Woolf here, will be concerning those aspects of her novel that I am supposed to investigate with regard to their Persian translations: point of view/focalization, and modes of speech and though representation. These are the most challenging literary aspects of this novel that not only, as the marked and salient stylistic features of her novel, have elicited much more appreciations and commentaries of the literary critics, but also they can be studied in their Persian …show more content…
In fact, different writers have used it differently, and it is why the way Woolf has employed it in , for example, To the lighthouse, is quite different from the way Joyce has employed it in his Ulysses, or Faulkner in his The Sound and The Fury; hence, Woolfian stream of consciousness, Joycian stream of consciousness, and Faulknerian stream of consciousness. Of various modes of this technique, the challenging ones are ‘third person narration’, ‘interior monologue’, sometimes being overlapped with ‘soliloquy’, and free indirect discourse (FID). Joyce’s Ulysses is dominated by interior monologue; Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury with soliloquy, and Woolf’s To the Lighthouse with FID. In fact, as a most challenging mode of speech and thought representation, FID is predominant through a kind of pint of view we may call ‘focalization’, in To the Lighthouse, and can be regarded as a stylistic feature of Woolf upon which I will be focusing all through this