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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Hite, Molly (1947-....)
Titre(s) : Woolf's ambiguities [Texte imprimé] : tonal modernism, narrative strategy, feminist precursors / Molly Hite
Publication : Ithaca (N.Y.) : Cornell university press, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVI-226 p.) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-218) and index
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-novel" The Pargiters, Woolf created a brilliant new
narrative form allowing her to make unequivocal value judgments
Sujet(s) : Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941) -- Féminisme
Robins, Elizabeth (1862-1952)
Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941) -- Thèmes, motifs
Ambiguïté -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781501714450. - ISBN 1501714457 (rel.). - ISBN 9781501714474 (erroné) (pdf).
- ISBN 9781501714467 (erroné) (epub/mobi)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb454881539
Notice n° :
FRBNF45488153
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
