Virginia Woolf's Ethics of the Short Story

Contents......Page 8
List of abbreviations......Page 10
The uncertain boundaries of Virginia Woolf’s short stories......Page 12
The reader and Woolf’s short stories......Page 15
Woolf’s short stories: a territory difficult to map out......Page 21
Towards an overall vision and synthetic appraisal of Woolf’s short stories......Page 24
Woolf’s essays about the short story......Page 29
Appraising Woolf’s definition of the short story......Page 33
The short story redefined as an ethical space......Page 39
Transmuting the story-telling process......Page 47
From the fragment to the whole: the associative method......Page 48
A whole made of fragments: the method of interruption......Page 55
Woolf’s short story as literary fragment......Page 66
Woolf’s short story as a paradoxical and dynamic space......Page 67
3 Conversation, Emotion and Ethics or the Short Story as Conversation......Page 71
“Form is emotion”: conversation as the form of the encounter between the self and the other......Page 74
The role of the party: the short story as an ethical and aesthetic space......Page 86
“A Dialogue upon Mount Pentelicus” or conversation redefined......Page 90
Staging the story-telling process and the story-teller......Page 101
Staging the origin of the creative process......Page 109
Staging the reader and the reading process......Page 110
The short story as a moment of being......Page 113
“A Haunted House”: the short story as a “house of Love”......Page 116
5 Woolf’s Short Story as a Site of Resistance......Page 122
The short story as a site of resistance against silence......Page 125
The short story as a site of resistance against authority......Page 136
Conclusion......Page 157
Notes......Page 160
Bibliography......Page 179
H......Page 188
S......Page 189
W......Page 190