This is an absolutely incredible lecture, very accessible, I found it incredibly insightful and I always find it so helpful and interesting when I have a similar thought to a lecturer whilst reading a novel, and when they then take a simple idea which I have had in passing and expand on it in a more sophisticated way
@sondraroberts-stott82064 жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant insight Thank you so much!!
@shavindadissanayake93454 жыл бұрын
An insightful interpretation to "To the Lighthouse"! My favourite literary work from the twentieth-century. Woolf's work is symbolic. It brings out the extraordinary ordinariness of everyday mundane life. A novel about life, art and time
@sondraroberts-stott82064 жыл бұрын
Absolutely!
@laurencerosania52614 жыл бұрын
Professor Mount offers a superb analysis that understands the book as an epic - but on an intimate level, and his insights will enrich any reader’s experience of this great work.
@carmencrous38587 жыл бұрын
Rarely have I come across a Lecturer as amazing as you. Thank you for your passion and true love for the English Literature. I am a final year student at Stellenbosch University in South Africa and we do not have Lecturers in my opinion who take literature in such depth as you. I love your way of teaching and would love to attend one of your lectures one day. Regards
@NickMount7 жыл бұрын
Many thanks, Carmen--glad you enjoyed it. By chance I just read a great novel by one of your countrymen, Deon Meyer's Fever. Dark, but ultimately hopeful...check it out over the summer.
@carmencrous38587 жыл бұрын
Nick Mount I actually read all of his novels. And buy them as soon as they come out. I read Fever a month ago and loved it. All of his novels are quite dark and surprising but I love his writing style. It's easy reading as well which is different from Classics like To the Lighthouse. Do you do open lectures for public members often or is it strictly members of the University?
@NickMount7 жыл бұрын
Depends on the class: auditors are generally welcome in big lecture classes, harder in seminars
@lowersecondary3347 жыл бұрын
hlo
@sondraroberts-stott82064 жыл бұрын
Yes I agree 100 percent. I love and admire your passion.
@kaybeckett55823 жыл бұрын
Dear Dr Mount. 2021 Pandemic. I cannot thank you enough. This is positively brilliant. I am really at a loss to say anything else. Beautiful
@NickMount3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Kay, glad it connected. And belated thanks to all else who've commented on this over the years, for your kindness & thoughtfulness. And your disagreements. :)
@kevingarywilkes6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for making this public. It's helping to deepen my reading of TTLH.
@yelia8742 Жыл бұрын
This is such a unique captivating lecture. I have been teaching Dramatic Arts on secondary level for over 20 years and tonight, your lecture rekindled the reason why I love teaching. Thank you for reminding me. I needed that.
@conniekampas70742 жыл бұрын
EXCELLENT. I will read this novel again and now truly understand and love all the work that Mr Mount put into this great novel. Thank you for your analysis that has helped me to better understand Virginia Woolf novel. Phenomenal job and so well spoken. ❤
@florafani2744 жыл бұрын
Amazing lecture. No words to describe it!! Thank you.
@YeatesKc5 жыл бұрын
Thank you Nick Mount for putting in the hard work analysing To The Lighthouse and sharing it with the public. We all benefit from your clever insights, you turned a brilliant novel into an epic. Fantastic well put together lecture . You’re a genius.
@sultanjaved90634 жыл бұрын
Your knowledge and analysis is commendable. Really enjoyable lecture, professor. Even your pauses are graceful and provide a certain deserving mood to Woolf.
@eileenpowers5624 Жыл бұрын
Outstanding lecture. This is my first time reading To the Lighthouse, as it was assigned reading for a PhD seminar in the Subject-Object dialectic. The parallels drawn between epic poetry/Iliad and the novel were particularly enlightening as was the view of Mrs. Ramsay as Woolf's feminist Penelope. Thank you, Professor Mount.
@NickMount Жыл бұрын
You are most welcome, glad to help.
@giuliodeperzio93468 жыл бұрын
I think this is one of the greatest lectures I have seen in my life, I love Virginia woolf, and you just did a great lecture. thank you!
@sondraroberts-stott82064 жыл бұрын
Ditto perfect brilliance!!
@oldhollywoodangels8 жыл бұрын
That was so good, wish I had him as my teacher cause it's the first time I got really interested in that story.
@sondraroberts-stott82064 жыл бұрын
Yes sheer brilliance insightful thank you!!!
@AAwildeone8 жыл бұрын
Wonderful talk on MY favorite novel...what's missing is this - alternately the lighthouse SEEMS close but then far...the lighthouse itself is a character as it sheds light and deprives or flashes explicitly in the novel, much like consciousness itself....In Lily's vision of the final landing, what matters is the end, the work of art (not necessarily a MASTERPIECE) to be hung in an attic, appreciated by a few in her day but possibly discovered in a ransack to be something of value. It's fantastic that what isn't really a GREAT VOYAGE Woolf was certainly able to turn into a crossing of immeasurable distances! What is truly Mr Ramsay's character at the landing, with his children on board, when the narrator suggests his thoughts - "We perished each alone" which is the scenario of drowning OR "I have reached it. I have found it," emphasizing the "I" did it alone in FINDING but the WE in drowning with his own children. So Mr Ramsay achieves his vision as Lily does, but in such radically different ways!
@sondraroberts-stott82064 жыл бұрын
Brilliant!! LITERATURE at its best!
@hiteshkhernar40173 жыл бұрын
One of the best lectures on Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse... Thank you so much professor... I learned a lot from it.
@syourke3 Жыл бұрын
Possibly the best lecture on a literary work I’ve ever heard! Brilliant! Insightful!
@lizaa3601 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful lecture. Thank you very much for making this public.
@hiteshkhernar40173 жыл бұрын
I'm looking forward for your more lectures, particularly your unique research paper presentation... Thanks so much sir!
@vickycurtin56226 жыл бұрын
Extremely moving and informative lecture. Thank you for all the work you did to create it, deliver it, and make it available to the public.
@NickMount6 жыл бұрын
You're most welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
@feridonrashidi5954 Жыл бұрын
And the great Persian epic, The Book of Kings, by Ferdowsi
@timothymontes20496 ай бұрын
Thank you, Nick. Woolf's novel comes alive for me via your lecture --- all the way to tropical Philippines. Brilliant.
@NickMount5 ай бұрын
You're most welcome!
@anshulnankani3 жыл бұрын
this was fucking incredible i never thought a lecture could give me jitters there was real intimacy in your voice, your cadence, your emotion, thank you for passing it to me
@gulsaraahmed66116 жыл бұрын
Thankyou so much for making it available here. It is profoundly informative and poignant.
@alant81409 ай бұрын
Brilliant insights into one of my favourite novels of all time. Thank you for sharing this!
@bellringer9294 жыл бұрын
Thank u so much.. I feel like I too have had my vision though it might be less lasting than the color of the butterfly's wings...such a pleasure to listen to u..
@sondraroberts-stott82064 жыл бұрын
Absolutely!
@karamatrache92642 жыл бұрын
Fantastic.. unbelievably fantastic...thank you
@matthewwohl9516 жыл бұрын
This is great. I need to re-watch this again, just like I need to re-read the novel itself! thanks
@johnking76855 жыл бұрын
I can't get enough of this lecturer...just listened to his take on Godot & The Waste Land & now this. Excellent.
@whaaaat459h3 жыл бұрын
thank you so much for this. i have graduated from school but have recently been craving to do some guided deep reading of books so i started watching some book reviews on virginia woolf but they are all not as thick and full and deep as this lecture is :)
@kjgrabo3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading your lectures!They help me understand what I am reading more fully. I love the specific examples you make.
@milagrosrodriguezcaro6259 Жыл бұрын
Impressive analysis of this work of art. Thank you.
@yildirimfguven8 жыл бұрын
very enlightening Thanks a million
@guitikamali9273 Жыл бұрын
This was amazing ! Thank you
@floatwiththesticks5 жыл бұрын
This was wonderful! Thank you for sharing.
@halabahaa47613 жыл бұрын
Beautiful. Thank you
@messipist3 жыл бұрын
Professor Mount is truly a remarkable teacher and presenter. Wish I had an opportunity to take his course.
@spellboundtarot12643 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much Sir. ❤️ THANK U, THANK U, THANK U! 🙏🏻
@adadevries84614 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed this lecture immensely
@rachelderienzo3 жыл бұрын
Great lecture, so helpful and very interesting...
@Poemsapennyeach8 жыл бұрын
Brilliant, Thank you Nick Mount. Excellent insight.
@luyandamalinga78945 жыл бұрын
wow, incredible lecture sir. I know understand the novel very well thank you.
@RaysDad3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Nick Mount, I learned a lot.
@khatunatskhadadze62344 жыл бұрын
Wonderful. Thank you!
@alisonarmstrong84213 жыл бұрын
Thank you, thank you for understanding what she did and still does for the (un)common reader.
@ArthurLWood3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic lecture. Thank you!
@applejellypucci5 жыл бұрын
Nick, you deserve more subscribers.
@NickMount5 жыл бұрын
Heck, I can't even get my own daughter to subscribe to my channel. :) But thank you.
@tiffanyclark-grove19893 жыл бұрын
Just finished this book. I love Virginia Woolf.
@grownups_not_only62986 жыл бұрын
Thank you for an amazing, inspired and intimate lecture.
@annettemillar80559 жыл бұрын
Wonderful. Do you have a transcript available as I would like to reference this lecture.
@NickMount9 жыл бұрын
+Annette Millar Sorry, no transcript. I suspect you could just cite the video. Glad you liked it.
@philliplipple1799Ай бұрын
This demonstrates that you can interpret a lot into simplistic novel.
@hollywhite9953 ай бұрын
Brilliant connections!
@m.manifi91327 жыл бұрын
What a great lecture, sir. I really like the style you deliver the information in a very smooth manner. Thanks so much
@NickMount7 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it.
@m.manifi91327 жыл бұрын
Hope to be one of your students, sir I am doing MA now, and I wish that I can do my PhD with you Mr. Prof., sir
@NickMount7 жыл бұрын
I don't have anything to do with admissions, but here's the application information: www.english.utoronto.ca/grad/programs/phdprogram.htm
@m.manifi91327 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot, sir
@parvintelli51782 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@szoszos15 жыл бұрын
I agree with the enthusiastic comments. I was also delighted to learn that Woolf did not like feminist categorization. I have never understood why the Room of your own should be called feminist when it argues against such art that interprets the world from a restricted feminine perspective.
@shavindadissanayake93454 жыл бұрын
Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse” (1927) is a landmark achievement of the twentieth century fiction. When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her husband and her son. During those ten years, death and misery haunt the Ramsay family. Mrs Ramsay dies. In a sense, the quest to the lighthouse symbolises the inner journey of the characters towards self-realisation and fulfilment of their hopes. It is a symbolic quest or an epic quest of a father and son to realise the “spirituality” and beauty of Mrs Ramsay’s soul. At the same time, Lily Briscoe completes her painting that she has started ten years ago, and her painting becomes an emblem of the immortality of art - Mrs Ramsay lives within Lily’s painting. “To the Lighthouse” which is described as the finest fiction of the twentieth century depicts the inner lives of the characters - the emotional universe of men and women. Woolf’s narrative is fragmented, and her novel is unconventional in its narrative structure. Woolf gives the fragmented, rather disjointed facts about the Ramsay family and allows the reader to build up the story. Besides, it is a novel about feminist spirituality where women are depicted as spiritual, creative and artistic while men possess higher grounds of culture and education.
@sondraroberts-stott82064 жыл бұрын
Absolutely wonderful to listen to Thank you a million times over!
@ErikaHOgrin7 ай бұрын
Just... beautiful ❤
@EmiWoodScully4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this great insight!!
@christinacascadilla44733 жыл бұрын
This was really good.
@shavindadissanayake93456 жыл бұрын
Deeply insightful and interesting interpretation to Woolf's "To the Lighthouse".
@lesliegeary81414 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this incredible video! Fascinating. Please do more! Possibly K. Mansfield?
@xyzllii7 жыл бұрын
Thanks. I would just like to mention, that I think it is over-looked how traumatised Wolfe was by the bombing of her home in Bloomsbury. Half the house still stood, and she remarks on seeing the half burned furniture in the living-room. All their memorabilia and books ruined etc. That whole life of theirs was taken away and they had only their memories left, of the gatherings and parties etc. It would have been hard for anyone to bear...but for her, with her fragile mental health, perhaps too much. This could have triggered off her demise ?
@NickMount7 жыл бұрын
Agreed, certainly a factor for anyone. Thanks for this.
@geraldclifton21644 жыл бұрын
Nick Mountain
@DarkAngelEU2 жыл бұрын
I'd love to know this handful of woman writers Woolf considered to be worth calling writers at all. Does anyone know who they are?
@jackiec8715 жыл бұрын
awesome
@eveythingthatsadam Жыл бұрын
I found this an absolutely impossible read. The grammar is just ridiculous. There are a hundred commas and bracketed sections within paragrahps making it difficult to remember what the first part of the paragraph was even about.
@sierrajolly48254 жыл бұрын
Oh we like him
@samiajaber93135 жыл бұрын
It was good !
@tiensintl1233 жыл бұрын
Sir kindly I have two questions regarding this novel...I couldn't sort it out.... kindly help me reply me so that I can my queries here.... please
@MagdaAllani5 жыл бұрын
New recording: www.audible.co.uk/pd/To-the-Lighthouse-Audiobook/1908671173?qid=1567693965&sr=1-2&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=8PNR2WTDF3C393JKZE6S&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_2
@jawa8472 Жыл бұрын
he lost me at the whole masculinity=hunting feminity=weather and emotions
@meeraow1286 Жыл бұрын
2:14
@tiensintl1234 жыл бұрын
Please make videos on parts and explain the whole novel by reading original text please its my humble request ....it will be so helpful if u do...
@stevenjbeto3 жыл бұрын
Stream of consciousness might be a fascination with the avant-garde, but if story has purpose then it must be accessable to the average reader else it falls on deaf ears.