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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455436803321

Autore

Skrbic Nena

Titolo

Wild outbursts of freedom [[electronic resource] ] : reading Virginia Woolf's short fiction / / Nena Skrbic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2004

ISBN

1-282-40895-X

9786612408953

0-313-05810-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Contributions to the study of world literature, , 0738-9345 ; ; no. 125

Disciplina

823/.912

Soggetti

Short story

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-183) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One; Chapter 1: "I Am One Person-Myself": Virginia Woolf's Practitioner Criticism; Chapter 2: Darkness and Conjecture: The Life of Monday or Tuesday; Chapter 3: Reflecting What Passes: Catching Mrs. Brown; Part Two; Chapter 4: But Which Is the True Story?: The Unpublished Juvenilia and Early Short Fiction; Chapter 5: Phantom Phrases: Ghostly Motifs in the Short Fiction; Chapter 6: A Tolerable Shape: Mrs. Dalloway's Party and the Short-Story Cycle; Conclusion: "Short Releases" (1930-41); Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N

OP; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

A pivotal figure in the world of novelists, Virginia Woolf was an outsider as a short story writer. Her stories form a large part of her output, but they were routinely sidelined in favor of her novels, which remain her pre-eminent literary legacy. Bringing together information from unpublished sources, Skrbic provides a long-overdue examination of Woolf's experiments with the short story form. Offering a model for the analysis of Woolf's short fiction, this book gives prominence to the way in which Woolf utilizes the short story's indeterminate frame to question the form, structure, and conve