CCT314H5 Lecture 2: WEEK 2 reading.pdf
6 Feb 2015
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Excerpt from the brown stocking, by erich auerbach (from mimesis: The representation of reality in western literature [1946], trans. This piece of narrative prose is the fifth section of part 1 in virginia. Woolf"s novel, to the lighthouse, which was first published in 1927. The situation in which the characters find themselves can be almost completely deduced from the text itself. Nowhere in the novel is it set forth systematically, by way of introduction or exposition, or in any other way than as it is here. I shall, however, briefly summarize what the situation is at the beginning of our passage. This will make it easier for the reader to understand the following analysis; it will also serve to bring out more clearly a number of important motifs from earlier sections which are here only alluded to. Mrs ramsay is the wife of an eminent london professor of philosophy; she is very beautiful but definitely no longer young.
