Virginia Woolfs Ethics of the Short Story [Paperback]

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.List of Abbreviations Introduction Woolf's Definition of the Short Story Woolf's Short Stories as a Paradoxical and Dynamic Space Conversation, Emotion and Ethics or the Short Story as Conversation Woolf's Ethics of Reading and Writing Woolf's Short Story as a Site of Resistance Conclusion Index

[ 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 Soci?t? 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.