Virginia Woolf’s Politics of Reviewing: a Place for Conversation

This paper examines how Woolf’s artistic project that lies at the intersection of her various commitments as a novelist, an essayist and a reviewer, questions the aesthetic and ethic principles inherited from the Western literary tradition. It posits that her many reviews where novelists, poets, styles, genres, fiction, non-fiction, social, sexual and cultural parameters intertwine and converse with one another, have paved the way for her own modes of writing and reading, and for the emergence of the modernist novel.