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"These Emotions of the Body": intercorporeal narrative in 'To the Lighthouse.' - book by Virginia Woolf
Twentieth Century Literature, Spring, 1994 by Laura Doyle
7 As does Miller in his provocative essay, I too understand Woolf's narrators to be located in a phenomenal and temporal world in many ways dominated by death. But while Miller identifies the realm of the past dead, or death-filled past, as the link between what he calls "mind and mind" in Mrs. Dalloway, I emphasize the link between body and body in the phenomenal present as that which enables the past to survive in Woolf's fiction as a realm the characters have in common.
8 Here we can see that Woolf's text does not conform to the supposed "modernist tenet of the separateness of the aesthetic from the rest of human life" (Martha Rosler 61).
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