03277nam 22005055 450 991027235040332120210405144835.01-5017-2795-81-5017-2631-510.7591/9781501726316(CKB)4340000000258197(MiAaPQ)EBC5317503(DE-B1597)496608(OCoLC)1028953776(DE-B1597)9781501726316(EXLCZ)99434000000025819720180924d2018 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Other Side of the Story Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives /Molly HiteIthaca, NY :Cornell University Press,[2018]©19921 online resource (172 pages)Includes index.0-8014-2164-0 1-5017-2632-3 Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1 Writing in the Margins: Jean Rhys --2 The Future in a Different Shape: Broken Form and Possibility in The Golden Notebook --3 Romance, Marginality, Matrilineage: The Color Purple --4 Other Side, Other Woman: Lady Oracle --IndexIn a book that compares Virginia 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-novel" The Pargiters, Woolf created a brilliant new narrative form allowing her to make unequivocal value judgments.English fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismEnglish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismFeminism and literatureHistory20th centuryEnglish fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.Feminism and literatureHistory823/.914/099287Hite Molly549085DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910272350403321The Other Side of the Story2585855UNINA