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Source for picture A wrap-up post on Walter Pater’s Imaginary Portraits and a couple of “portrait”-like short stories. A few Online resources for Walter Pater Project Gutenberg’s link for Imaginary Portraits All Walter Pater’s works at Project Gutenberg Imaginary Portraits discussion: Chapters 1 – 2 Imaginary Portraits discussion: Chapter 3 Imaginary Portraits discussion: Chapter 4 […]
I enjoyed the four stories that made up Imaginary Portraits so I decided to read a couple of additional “portraits”. “The Child in the House” was published in Macmillan’s Magazine in August 1878. The somewhat autobiographical piece is a look at Florian Deleal’s childhood and what Pater called “the process of our brain-building.” This was […]
“Duke Carl of Rosenmold” Having read this several weeks ago before a vacation break and work overload, I run the risk of leaving out much of what struck me as important or good about this story. While enjoying it, I did feel it was the weakest of the four portraits in the collection. Or at […]
“Sebastian Van Storck” As I read Pater’s Imaginary Portraits and get comfortable with his style and approach, the more I feel like I’m looking at a painting. Everything ties together, although you don’t always realize it at the time…the narrative may not be part of the main subject but it works its way into shaping […]
This post will look at the first two chapters of Imaginary Portraits, a work which can be found here. The use of the word ‘portrait’ in the title of the collection is telling as it feels like Pater creates a written picture, solidifying a relationship between life and art. (The works were individually published in […]
Picture source While there are some online resources for Walter Pater, the number doesn’t seem in proportion to the influence he had on other writers. Here are a few links: Pater’s entries at Wikipedia Works available on Project Gutenberg or at manybooks.net Pater’s entry in The Victorian Web Subir Grewal has a nice page on […]
Many posts related to Woolf and To the Lighthouse, so here goes… Virginia Woolf online resources Woolf’s “Modern Fiction” and How Should One Read a Book?” essays Audio recommendation To the Lighthouse: The Window, Chapter 1 To the Lighthouse: The Window, Chapters 2 – 9 To the Lighthouse: The Window, Chapters 10 – 16 To […]
The IMDB page for the movie can be found here. An adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s work is going to be a challenge. How to capture the consciousness of the characters that fills the majority of the book? Despite the massive changes to storyline, wholesale additions and omissions, and a pared down character list, the movie […]
Godrevy Island lighthouse (Source)“The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one. This, that, and the other; herself and Charles Tansley and the breaking wave; Mrs Ramsay bringing them together; Mrs Ramsay saying, “Life stand […]
The first chapter of “Time Passes” highlights the difference in narrative style for this section. Events after the dinner are conveyed through a third-person approach rather than the stream-of-consciousness in the “The Window.” This change in technique mirrors the shift in focus regarding the impact of time. The first section, which viewed the world through […]