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This document contains notes about Virginia Woolf's novel "To The Lighthouse" and her narrative technique. It discusses Woolf's purpose as a novelist to render the "luminous halo" that surrounds people and record the process of living by tracing impressions, thoughts, and moods. For "To The Lighthouse", Woolf aims to convey the rhythm of her characters' life experiences through the central intelligence of the narrator. The document analyzes how Woolf discarded older novel conventions and cleverly avoided issues with stream-of-consciousness novels to give form and coherence to her material in a way that was not incoherent like some other novelists.
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