Povezave med skupino Bloomsbury, Virginio Woolf in romanom K svetilniku

Diplomska naloga v širšem kulturnozgodovinskem kontekstu predstavlja skupino Bloomsbury, kulturno formacijo elitnih izobražencev višjega srednjega razreda angleške družbe v prvih desetletjih 20. stoletja. S svojimi aktivnostmi so, zlasti po ustanovitvi delavnic Omega in založbe Hogarth Press, pomembno vplivali na spremembe v tedanjem družbenem in kulturnem življenju. Znotraj Bloomsburyja je bila osrednja osebnost pisateljica Virginia Woolf, predstavnica modernega romana toka zavesti. Njen roman K svetilniku, ki ga literarna kritika poleg romanov Gospa Dalloway in Valovi uvršča v sam vrh modernističnega romanopisja, je nastal ravno v času največjega razcveta kroga Bloomsbury. Naloga skuša prek lika slikarke Lily Briscoe osvetliti, kako so na roman vplivala teoretska izhodišča umetnostnega kritika in slikarja Rogerja Frya, bloomsburyjevca od leta 1910.The purpose of this thesis is to present the Bloomsbury Group - a cultural coterie of elite intellectuals from the upper-middle class in the first decades of the twentieth century - from a broad cultural and historical context. The group\u27s influence on the social and cultural life was of utmost importance, even more so after the establishment of the Omega Workshops and the Hogarth Press. As a representative of the modern stream of consciousness novel, Virginia Woolf was one of the most prominent figures within Bloomsbury. According to literary critics, her novels To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway and The Waves are among the greatest achievements in modernist literature. To the Lighthouse was written while the Bloomsbury circle was at the peak of its creativity. Through the character of the painter Lily Briscoe, this thesis attempts to shed light on how the novel was influenced by the theoretical standpoint of the art critic and painter Roger Fry, who became a member of the Bloomsbury Group in 1910