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Wild Outbursts of Freedom Reading Virginia Woolf's Short Fiction
Nena Skrbic
ISBN: 0-313-32376-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32376-8
216 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 5/30/2004
List Price: $82.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: 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 Bringing together information from unpublished sources, Skrbic provides a long-overdue examination of Woolf's experiments with the short story form.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 conventionalities of fiction. Scholars, students, and fans of Woolf will profit from this careful consideration of a neglected area of Woolf scholarship.

Despite her popularity as a novelist, Woolf was among the very few writers of her generation to face the creative challenge of writing stories with no direct action, human content, or dialogue. For Woolf, writing short fiction was a displacement activity and the short story's marginal and detached framework lent an ideal shape to her thoughts. Here, Skrbic examines Woolf's commitment to and enthusiasm for exploring the genre's potential and looks at how her stories intersect with biography, ghost stories, and the short story cycle. Wild Outbursts of Freedom offers readers a unique opportunity to expand their understanding of Woolf and her work.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
    "I am one person--myself": Virginia Woolf's Practitioner Criticism
    Darkness and Conjecture: The Life of Monday or Tuesday
    Reflecting What Passes: Catching Mrs. Brown
    But Which Is the True Story?: The Unpublished Juvenilia and Early Short Fiction
    Phantom Phrases: Ghostly Motifs in the Short Fiction
    A Tolerable Shape: Mrs. Dalloway's Party and the Short Story Cycle
    Conclusion: Short Releases (1930-1941)
    Bibliography
About the Author: NENA SKRBIC is currently tutor of English language and literature at Thomas Danby College of Further Education, Leeds, England. From 1999-2002 she was a member of the Editorial Committee of the Virginia Woolf Bulletin, U.K.
LCC Class: 823
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