Woolf’s To The Lighthouse changed how I read!

To The Lighthouse has been listed as one of the most important novels of the 20th Century, but it can so easily confuse and frustrate readers.
After years of reading and studying for my doctorate in literature, I have come to realise how this book changed how I read modernist works. I think we fundamentally read in an analytical and forensic way generally, but these skills works against us when we approach Woolf, Joyce, and other modernists.
In this video I give you some context for the novel, and how we can adjust our reading style to make better sense of what the novel achieves, whether you’re reading for study, pleasure, or to improve your own writing.
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ABOUT JOHN BURTON:
My on-screen debut was in a 1994 Channel 4 documentary about my work in language teaching, and I later acted in a documentary about Victorian England, narrated by Gregory Peck. I was born and raised in the suburbs of London, before going to an all-boys school and then living for a couple of years in Montreal where I learned to speak French. When I returned to the UK I began a career teaching English, which eventually took me to Seville for a few years. I learned Spanish, I painted, took pictures, wrote poetry, learned to be a barber, and did my doctorate in literary studies while living in rural west Wales. I am now based near Bristol