Titlebook: Virginia Woolf’s Ethics of the Short Story; Christine Reynier Book 2009 Christine Reynier 2009 emotion.ethics.resistance.space.Virginia Wo

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Conversation, Emotion and Ethics or the Short Story as Conversation, Attridge remarks, “is a somewhat overworked phrase in current academic discourse” (Attridge 2004: 28) and although not as general as “otherness” or “alterity”, it is certainly imprecise. Attridge then proceeds to make a list of the different meanings of the term.:

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,Woolf’s Ethics of Reading and Writing,s short stories will be examined at length; how it opens onto a specific experience of alterity and a specific form of conversation involving writer and reader caught up in a collaborative process will then be analysed as well as the eminently ethical moment of encounter it creates.

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,Virginia Woolf’s Definition of the Short Story,ied scientific style most literary critics and theoreticians adopt today.. Yet such a style should not blind us to Woolf’s aim and competence. In some of these essays, such as “Is Fiction an Art?”, she laments the lack of all theory of fiction:

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,Woolf’s Short Stories as a Paradoxical and Dynamic Space,Proportion suggests symmetry, balance, some form of rational organisation at odds with emotion, which is generally connected with excess, passion and intensity, the very opposites of rationality. Similarly, impersonality suggests an absence of personal involvement, an “extinction of personality” in

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Conversation, Emotion and Ethics or the Short Story as Conversation,n and wholeness, like the literary fragment it has been compared with. It appears to be a space of tension where, in a more general way, opposites come together without merging into one another. It is a third space, a space of encounter between two different elements—structurally speaking, between f

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,Woolf’s Ethics of Reading and Writing,extended so as to embrace the encounter between the self as creator and the other as reader. Indeed, in most short stories, a silent conversation takes place between them through the staging of the story-telling process, the story-teller and the reader. This metafictional mechanism at work in Woolf’