 | Virginia Woolf - 1925 - 350 strani
...the Bond Street tailors would have it. Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; but a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding...consciousness to the end. Is it not the task of the nov[212] elist to convey this varying, this unknown and uncircumscribed spirit, whatever aberration... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Drew - 1926 - 296 strani
...cannot. It is not merely that there is no plot in these novels: we quite agree with Mrs. Woolf that "life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged;...us from the beginning of consciousness to the end," but life is nevertheless made manifest to us by the colouring of personality which stains that halo,... | |
 | William Troy - 1967 - 324 strani
...Virginia Woolf and the Novel of Sensibility Life is not a series of gig-lamps symmetrically arranged; but a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding...us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. [1932] Not only in rhythm and tone but also in the imponderable vagueness of its diction this statement... | |
 | Kathy Mezei - 1996 - 300 strani
...incessant shower of innumerable atoms. . . . Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; but a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding...us from the beginning of consciousness to the end" ("Modern Fiction," 1 54). Woolf 's much-cited image of the "gig lamps symmetrically arranged" implies... | |
 | Herta Newman - 1996 - 168 strani
...(1925), states the case succinctly, "Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; but a luminous halo, a semitransparent envelope surrounding...us from the beginning of consciousness to the end" (p. 154). 7. "Oxbridge" and "Fernham," transparent substitutes for Oxford and Newnham, are part of... | |
 | Sandy Flitterman-Lewis - 1996 - 396 strani
..."luminous halo" that surrounds Madame Beudet, and calling to mind Virginia Woolf s definition of life as "a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end")16 is cinematically contrasted with metonymies of the implacable and ordered movement of chronological... | |
 | Arthur Holmberg - 1996 - 260 strani
...come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms . . . they fall . . . they shape themselves . . . into a luminous halo, a semitransparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."9 It is this "luminous halo" that Wilson puts on stage, and in so doing, he enables the theatre... | |
 | Karl Simms - 1997 - 318 strani
...novelist's fingers. For what is life? Not an arrangement of objects, Woolf says, "not a series of gig-lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a...us from the beginning of consciousness to the end" (Woolf l966: l05, l06).1 But in rejecting "materialism" or "realism", Virginia Woolf was not asking... | |
 | Robert E. Bjork, John D. Niles - 1997 - 492 strani
...as of Beowulf. For neither life nor this epic is "a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; but a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding...us from the beginning of consciousness to the end" (Woolf 1925, 212). The digressions and episodes in Beowulf constitute a large part of that envelope... | |
 | Walter F. Greiner, Fritz Kemmler - 1997 - 282 strani
...venture to call life itself; and to figure further as the semi45 transparent envelope, or luminous halo, surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. Is it not perhaps the chief task of the novelist to convey this incessantly varying spirit with whatever stress... | |
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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. 
