Kew Gardens | Forms of the Woolfian Short Story
In the following excerpt, Fleishman provides an analysis of Woolf s ''Kew Gardens,'' which he categorizes as a linear tale.
The standard format for a critical study of Virginia Woolf is a series of chapters on the nine longer fictions, one after the other. The body of her short stories tends to be neglected, except as quarry for the longer works. In contributing to a revaluation of Woolf’s achievement, I take up these stories to discover what is distinctive in their form and, by implication, their innovations within the development of the modern short story. . . .
From the inception of critical discussion of the short story, the theory of its form has not moved much beyond Poe’s notion of the...
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