The Frame

To the Lighthouse wasn’t quite as accessible for me as Mrs. Dalloway, but it has plenty of Woolfian flashes of brilliance. The story concerns a family and various friends vacationing in the Hebrides; in the first half, the children want to go to visit the local lighthouse, but it seems weather will prevent them. In [...]

Postmodernism is often seen as a rejection of the totalizing project of modernism and of the Enlightenment; however, literary modernism as exemplified in the works of Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, and others, are as skeptical of the Enlightenment project as postmodernism. This article argues that postmodernism continues to be concerned with the same issues as literary modernism, but simply takes the issues further.