Virginia Woolf’s Ethics of the Short Story

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Christine Reynier

   Pages 1-17

3. Virginia Woolf’s Definition of the Short Story

   • Christine Reynier

   Pages 18-35

4. Woolf’s Short Stories as a Paradoxical and Dynamic Space

   • Christine Reynier

   Pages 36-59

5. Conversation, Emotion and Ethics or the Short Story as Conversation

   • Christine Reynier

   Pages 60-89

6. Woolf’s Ethics of Reading and Writing

   • Christine Reynier

   Pages 90-110

7. Woolf’s Short Story as a Site of Resistance

   • Christine Reynier

   Pages 111-148

8. Back Matter

   Pages 149-179

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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.

• emotion
• ethics
• resistance
• space
• Virginia Woolf
• writing
• British and Irish Literature

[ 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

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.

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