Virginia Woolf’s Dischronic Art of Fiction in her Essays
It can be argued that in her numerous essays Woolf provides a theory of fiction, although she redefines the term ‘theory’ in her own way. This article attempts to delineate Woolf’s specific theory of writing and reading as it appears in her essays, more particularly in ‘Personalitie’, ‘Reading’, ‘On...
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Études britanniques contemporaines
2020
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| Sumari: | It can be argued that in her numerous essays Woolf provides a theory of fiction, although she redefines the term ‘theory’ in her own way. This article attempts to delineate Woolf’s specific theory of writing and reading as it appears in her essays, more particularly in ‘Personalitie’, ‘Reading’, ‘On Being Ill’ and ‘Crafstmanship’. Her vision of the impersonal writer, of reading as a moment of openness, of writing and reading as gifts is explored and compared with her contemporaries’, namelyE.M. Forster, Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence or T.S. Eliot’s. Her theory of fiction is shown to be both grounded in its cultural context and ground-breaking in so far as it paves the way for theories to come. Woolf’s theory of fiction thus appears to be ‘dischronic’, that is haunted by contemporary theories as well as by theories that were still to come. |
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