Christine Reynier – An appraisal and revaluation of Woolf’s short stories

This book aims at a unique synthetic appraisal and revaluation of Virginia Woolf’s short stories. Confronting the author’s essays on the short story with her practice, it shows how Woolf rejuvenates the genre of the short story and redefines it as a new form of conversation.
Christine REYNIER, Virginia Woolf’s Ethics of the Short Story. Basingstoke and New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 179p. ISBN 978-0-230-22718-7

 

 

This book aims at a unique synthetic appraisal and revaluation of Virginia Woolf’s short stories. Confronting the author’s essays on the short story with her practice, it shows how Woolf rejuvenates the genre of the short story and redefines it as a new form of conversation: a paradoxical and dynamic space, a space of encounter between the self and the other, a locus of emotion and a site of resistance against all forms of political and literary totality.

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