This essay considers how Virginia Woolf's personal and social anti-Semitism disrupts creation of a stable ethos in her political tract, Three Guineas. The article uses De Man's concept of blindness and insight to interrogate Woolf's own ideological blindness and forwards liminality as a frame within which to understand ethos in this work.

This article considers pedagogical aporias in teaching students to perform critical analyses of nontraditional “texts,” such as advertisements and shopping mall display windows.