RT Journal Article
T1 Virginia Woolf and Michel de Montaigne: Ethics and Aesthetics of the Literary Essay
A1 Lojo Rodríguez, Laura María
K1 Virginia Woolf
K1 The Common Reader
K1 The essay
K1 Michel de Montaigne
AB Virginia Woolf’s literary essays emerge out of an eagerness to communicate a self at odds with its own time, rejecting ideological assumptions present in her contemporaries’ critical practice. Woolf’s reformulation articulates itself as a return to the humble origins of the essay as form, which she acknowledged to appear embodied in Michel de Montaigne’s Essais (1580). The present paper aims to explore the ethics of subversion which underpin Woolf’s criticism and her conception of the literary essay, along with the aesthetics which its form presentsas promulgated by its “modern” inventor, from Woolf’s first reception of theFrenchman’s essayist to her own first collection of criticism, The Common Reader (1925).
PB Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Barcelona
SN 1139-8213
YR 2004
FD 2004
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32036
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32036
LA eng
NO Lojo Rodríguez, Laura María. «Virginia Woolf and Michel de Montaigne: Ethics and Aesthetics of the Literary Essay». Bells: Barcelona English language and literature studies, 2004, Vol. 13
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026