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Wild Outbursts of Freedom Reading Virginia Woolf's Short Fiction
Nena Skrbic
Book Code: GM2376
ISBN: 0-313-32376-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32376-8
216 pages, n/a
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 5/30/2004
List Price: $82.95 (UK Sterling Price: £47.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions to the Study of World Literature
Series Number: 125
Reviews:
  • Skrbic's approach to Woolf's short stories is original and stimulating ... There can be no doubt that Nena Skrbic's work on Virginia Woolf's short stories is the most ambitious to date. It is an intellectually stimulating read and provides many new insights and evaluations ... Anyone interested in this part of Woolf's output would derive great benefit from this book.
    —Virginia Woolf Bulletin     January 2005
  • Endorsement From Professor Susan Dick,
    Queen's University,
    Kingston, Ontario:     Professor Skrbic ably combines subtle and original close readings of Virginia Woolf's short fiction with insightful commentary on their literary, historical, and critical contexts. Readers of Woolf and of the modern short story in particular will find much to interest them in this impressive and engaging study.
  • Endorsement From Susan Lohafer,
    Professor of English,
    The University of Iowa:     Honoring the hands-on tradition of short fiction theory, Skrbic brilliantly dissects Woolf's moth-wing prose without chloroforming it with jargon or nailing it to ideology. With refreshing eclecticism, she uses biographical sources (some of them previously untapped), cultural frames, discourse analyses, and genre typologies to lay before us, newly unfurled, the importance of Woolf's short fiction to its creator's life and to the development of the "anti-story" short story.
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 Bringing together information from unpublished sources, Skrbic provides a long-overdue examination of Woolf's experiments with the short story form.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
LC Card Number: 2003062255
LCC Class: PR6045
Dewey Class: 823
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