READING VIRGINIA WOOLF’S TO THE LIGHTHOUSE FROM THE LANDSCAPE CRITICISM THEORY

DOI: 10.18173/2354-1067.2024-0021

Abstract

Landscape in literature is a form of text;it contains many layers of meaning and alwaysinvites the reader to be creative. Applying thelandscape criticism theory to study the case ofVirginia Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse is a newapproach to a work that has already received a lotof attention from scholars worlwide. Besides themain approach of landscape criticism, the articleapplies the socio-historical method to decodeindividual lives in the flow of history, and thesystematic method to systematize the researchproblem, combined with survey and analysisoperations to answer the research questions. Thearticle points out the interactions and connectionsbetween humans and landscape in two aspects:geographical-environmental landscape andlandscape of the mind, thereby helping readers godeeper into the writer's artistic world, which isextremely rich and full of complexity