Trespassing Boundaries
In Trespassing Boundaries , ten contemporary Woolf scholars discuss a broad range of Woolf's short stories. Despite being now easily available these stories have not yet received the attention they deserve. Complex yet involving, they deserve to be read not only for the light they shed on the novels, but in their own right, as major contributions to the short fiction as a genre. This volume places Woolf's short stories in the context of modernist experimentalism, then explores them as ambitious attempts to challenge generic boundaries, undercutting traditional distinctions between short fiction and the novel, between experimental and popular fiction, between fiction and nonfiction. Collectively the essays suggest that Woolf's contribution to the short story is as important as her contribution to the novel.
| ISBN: | 9781403964830 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 223 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Herausgeber: | Benzel, K. Hoberman, R. |
| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Veröffentlicht: | 17.12.2004 |
| Untertitel: | Virginia Woolf's Short Fiction |
| Schlagworte: | British and Irish Literature Modernism Virginia Woolf Woolf fiction novel women |
KATHRYN N. BENZEL is Professor of English and Director of First-Year Program at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, USA. She is author of Charleston: A Voice in the House (1998), and co-author of Images of the Self as Female: The Achievements of Women Artists in Re-Envisioning the Feminine Identity (1992). She has also written several journal articles. RUTH HOBERMAN is a Professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, USA. she is co-author of The McGraw-Hill Guide to World Literature (1984) and author of Modernizing Lives: Experiments in English Biography 1918-1939 (1987) and Gendering Classicism: The Ancient World in Twentieth Century Women's Historical Fiction (1997).