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  • 1 Now in Virginia Woolf. Le pur et l’impur. Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle 2001, eds Catherine Bernard (...)

1Conversation in Virginia Woolf’s Works was the theme of the fourth conference of the Société d’Études Woolfiennes which was held at the University Paul Valéry—Montpellier III in June 2003. The theme was chosen during the Cerisy conference of 2001 when we debated about ‘the pure and the impure’ and how these two categories conversed with one another in Virginia Woolf’s works.1

2Following on the tracks of Cerisy, the Montpellier conference addressed the issue of Conversation in Virginia Woolf’s works by drawing on various methods of criticism, borrowing from genetics as well as from phenomenology, or offering textual as well as interart analyses. The whole body of Woolf’s works was taken into account so as to trace the conversational links between Virginia Woolf’s fiction and her essays or between Virginia Woolf’s works and other artists’ works. Conversation thus finally and paradoxically appeared as an essential component of the work of a writer who is often known for writing about silence.

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1 Now in Virginia Woolf. Le pur et l’impur. Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle 2001, eds Catherine Bernard & Christine Reynier (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2002).

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Christine Reynier, « Foreword »Études britanniques contemporaines [En ligne], Hors série | 2005, mis en ligne le 02 juillet 2024, consulté le 18 janvier 2026. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/15011 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/12cwh

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Christine Reynier

Christine Reynier is Professor of English literature at the University Paul Valéry-Montpellier III, France. She has published extensively on Virginia Woolf, especially on her short fiction, and has edited journals and books on Woolf, namely Études britanniques contemporaines (October 1997; Autumn 1999) and Virginia Woolf. Le Pur et l’impur. Colloque de Cerisy 2001, eds. Catherine Bernard and Christine Reynier (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2002). She is also interested in contemporary writers’ readings of Woolf and has just published Jeanette Winterson. Le miracle ordinaire (Bordeaux: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2004).

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