Virginia Woolf's Ethics of the Short Story - by C Reynier (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book throws new light on Woolfs short stories by showing how they enact conversations between the self and other, whether between characters or between writer and reader. Tracing Woolfs own theory of the short story, this new study demonstrates how these works become a site of resistance against social and cultural norms.

Book Synopsis

Virginia Woolf's Ethics of the Short Story aims at a synthetic appraisal of Woolf's short stories as a space of encounter and a site of resistance. It throws a new light on Woolf's short stories as foregrounding the ethical as well as the political and the aesthetic and shows how they participate fully in her creative process.

Review Quotes

[ Virginia Woolf's Ethics of the Short Story ] is a provocative and inspirational source for the scholarship of Virginia Woolf and the short story.' Hivren Demir-Atay, University of Gaziantep, Turkey

About the Author

CHRISTINE REYNIER is Professor of British Literature at the University of Montpellier III, France. She founded the Société d' Etudes Woolfiennes in 1996; she has edited books and journals on Woolf, and published on Woolf's fiction and essays as well as on other modernist works. She has also written a monograph on Jeanette Winterson.