Of Moths and Motor Cars: Vital Circulation and the ‘Meeting-Text’ in Virginia Woolf’s ‘The Death of the Moth’ and ‘Evening over Sussex’
Starting from an examination of vital energy in two essays by Virginia Woolf—‘The Death of the Moth’ and ‘Evening over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car’, both initially published in the posthumous collection The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942)—this article establishes that ‘life’ is conc...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:ebc_15901 https://doi.org/10.4000/141gb urn:doi:10.4000/141gb en https://journals.openedition.org/ebc/15901 2025-06-02T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/141gb https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Of Moths and Motor Cars: Vital Circulation and the ‘Meeting-Text’ in Virginia Woolf’s ‘The Death of the Moth’ and ‘Evening over Sussex’ Études britanniques contemporaines Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2271-5444 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1168-4917 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ebc Le Brun, Xavier intimacy new materialism chronotope ‘Evening over Sussex’ life ‘meeting-text’ pronoun ‘one’ stylistics ‘The Death of the Moth’ Woolf (Virginia) néo-matérialisme intimité chronotope « Evening over Sussex » principe vital pronom « one » stylistique texte-rencontre « The Death of the Moth » Woolf (Virginia) Starting from an examination of vital energy in two essays by Virginia Woolf—‘The Death of the Moth’ and ‘Evening over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car’, both initially published in the posthumous collection The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942)—this article establishes that ‘life’ is conceived by Woolf as a process of circulation and exchange, extending beyond the diegetic level to embrace the relationship between reader and narrative voice. What Woolf seeks to set up in ‘The Death of the Moth’, ‘Evening over Sussex’ and other short writings fostering a sense of intimacy with their narrator, is a form of textual coexistence which I propose to refer to as ‘meeting-texts’. Relying on the pronoun ‘one’ as well as on condensed chronotopes to generate joint reader-narrator experience, the subgenre of the ‘meeting-text’ aims at ‘convey[ing] what one saw . . . so that another person [can] share it’ (Woolf, ‘Evening over Sussex’). À partir d’un examen du principe vital dans deux essais de Virginia Woolf—« The Death of the Moth » et « Evening over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car », tous deux publiés pour la première fois dans le recueil posthume The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942) — cet article suggère que la conception woolfienne de la vie s’apparente à un processus de circulation et d’échange, lequel excède le niveau de la diégèse pour embrasser la relation entre lecteur et voix narrative. Ce que Woolf cherche à établir dans « The Death of the Moth », « Evening over Sussex » et d’autres formes brèves encourageant elles aussi une forme d’intimité avec le narrateur, c’est un mode de coexistence textuelle que je propose de nommer « texte-rencontre ». En s’appuyant sur le pronom « one » ainsi que sur des chronotopes resserrés afin de générer une expérience collective entre voix narrative et lecteur, le genre transversal du « texte-rencontre » a pour but de « transmettre ce que l’on voyait... de sorte qu’une autre personne puisse en bénéficier » (Woolf, « Evening over Sussex »). |
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intimacy new materialism chronotope ‘Evening over Sussex’ life ‘meeting-text’ pronoun ‘one’ stylistics ‘The Death of the Moth’ Woolf (Virginia) néo-matérialisme intimité chronotope « Evening over Sussex » principe vital pronom « one » stylistique texte-rencontre « The Death of the Moth » Woolf (Virginia) |
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intimacy new materialism chronotope ‘Evening over Sussex’ life ‘meeting-text’ pronoun ‘one’ stylistics ‘The Death of the Moth’ Woolf (Virginia) néo-matérialisme intimité chronotope « Evening over Sussex » principe vital pronom « one » stylistique texte-rencontre « The Death of the Moth » Woolf (Virginia) Le Brun, Xavier Of Moths and Motor Cars: Vital Circulation and the ‘Meeting-Text’ in Virginia Woolf’s ‘The Death of the Moth’ and ‘Evening over Sussex’ |
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Starting from an examination of vital energy in two essays by Virginia Woolf—‘The Death of the Moth’ and ‘Evening over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car’, both initially published in the posthumous collection The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942)—this article establishes that ‘life’ is conceived by Woolf as a process of circulation and exchange, extending beyond the diegetic level to embrace the relationship between reader and narrative voice. What Woolf seeks to set up in ‘The Death of the Moth’, ‘Evening over Sussex’ and other short writings fostering a sense of intimacy with their narrator, is a form of textual coexistence which I propose to refer to as ‘meeting-texts’. Relying on the pronoun ‘one’ as well as on condensed chronotopes to generate joint reader-narrator experience, the subgenre of the ‘meeting-text’ aims at ‘convey[ing] what one saw . . . so that another person [can] share it’ (Woolf, ‘Evening over Sussex’). |
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Of Moths and Motor Cars: Vital Circulation and the ‘Meeting-Text’ in Virginia Woolf’s ‘The Death of the Moth’ and ‘Evening over Sussex’ |
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Of Moths and Motor Cars: Vital Circulation and the ‘Meeting-Text’ in Virginia Woolf’s ‘The Death of the Moth’ and ‘Evening over Sussex’ |
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Of Moths and Motor Cars: Vital Circulation and the ‘Meeting-Text’ in Virginia Woolf’s ‘The Death of the Moth’ and ‘Evening over Sussex’ |
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Of Moths and Motor Cars: Vital Circulation and the ‘Meeting-Text’ in Virginia Woolf’s ‘The Death of the Moth’ and ‘Evening over Sussex’ |
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