Woolf's ambiguities : tonal modernism, narrative strategy, feminist precursors / Molly Hite.
Material type: TextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 226 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9781501714474
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- 1501714457
- 9781501714450
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
- Ambiguity in literature
- Modernism (Literature)
- English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Ambiguïté dans la littérature
- Modernisme (Littérature)
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Ambiguity in literature
- English fiction -- Women authors
- Modernism (Literature)
- 823/.912 23
- PR6045.O72 Z6975 2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Woolf's tone : listening to Mrs. Dalloway -- Tone and modernism : Jacob's room, To the lighthouse and The waves -- Not looking back through our mothers : Elizabeth Robins and the feminist polemical novel -- Making room for A room of one's own -- What girls should know : The voyage out and My little sister -- The professional and the poet : A dark lantern and Mrs. Dalloway -- Epilogue : the possibilities of The Pargiters.
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In a book that comparesVirginia Woolf's writing with that of the novelist, actress, and feminist activist Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952), Molly Hite explores the fascinating connections between Woolf's aversion to women's "pleading a cause" in fiction and her narrative technique of complicating, minimizing, or omitting tonal cues. Hite shows how A Room of One's Own, Mrs. Dalloway, and The Voyage Out borrow from and implicitly criticize Robins's work. Hite presents and develops the concept of narrative tone as a means to enrich and complicate our readings of Woolf's modernist novels. In Woolf's Ambiguities, she argues that the greatest formal innovation in Woolf's fiction is the muting, complicating, or effacing of textual pointers guiding how readers feel and make ethical judgments about characters and events. Much of Woolf's narrative prose, Hite proposes, thus refrains from endorsing a single position, not only adding value ambiguity to the cognitive ambiguity associated with modernist fiction generally, but explicitly rejecting the polemical intent of feminist novelists in the generation preceding her own. Hite also points out that Woolf reconsidered her rejection of polemical fiction later in her career. In the unfinished draft of her "essay-nove;" The Pargiters, Woolf created a brilliant new narrative form allowing her to make unequivocal value judgments.
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