An Affirmation of Life Through Art? an Analysis of the Interrelation Between Life and Art in Virginia Woolf's Novels the Waves and to the Lighthouse

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Regensburg (Anglistik), course: Kathrine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf, language: English, abstract: Most of Virginia Woolf's works deal with artists. That might be a writer, a poet, like Bernard in The Waves. It might as well be a painter, like Lily Briscoe in To the Lighthouse. Reasons, why Woolf often chose to write about artists and the creation of art, are easy to find: During all her life, she was deeply concerned with dealing both theoretically and practically with the facets of art. But not only the nature of art was in the focus of Woolf's interest. She also thoroughly investigated the nature of life: Her novels, Mrs Dalloway as well as The Waves or To the Lighthouse, are about the lives of different characters that are linked with one another. This essay will explore and analyse the interrelation between life and art in The Waves and To the Lighthouse.