2013 Workshop Description
Afternoon Session—Instructor: Peter Orner
ZEROING IN ON THE MOMENT
A look at scenes from Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Henry Green's Loving
The lecture will focus on scenes from the novels of two great British modernists, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Henry Green's Loving, a lesser known classic. Both writers excelled (and blew apart in many ways) what I see as the building block of prose, the moment. In often breathtaking fashion, both Woolf and Green make particular moments utterly unforgettable. How did they do it? The lecture, with I hope the help of conference participants, will shed some light on what these two giants are up to in these two seminal 20th century books.
If you read these two books beforehand that would be helpful, but it is not required.
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