Christine Reynier. Virginia Woolf’s Ethics of the Short Story
One has only to try and bring to mind the collection of texts that makes up a body definable as ‘Woolf’s short stories’ to realise that a critic setting out to give a synthetic appraisal of them is embarking on a somewhat intrepid mission. Even the word “body” seems rather optimistic for a corpus w...
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2011
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| Summary: | One has only to try and bring to mind the collection of texts that makes up a body definable as ‘Woolf’s short stories’ to realise that a critic setting out to give a synthetic appraisal of them is embarking on a somewhat intrepid mission. Even the word “body” seems rather optimistic for a corpus whose limits are decidedly hazy: do sketches from childhood count? What about essays adopting a markedly fictional or decentred voice, or autobiographical tales interwoven with skeins of fantasy? Do... |
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