9 options
The Other Side of the Story : Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives / Molly Hite.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hite, Molly, author.
- en Book Program, National Endowment for the Humanities Op, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Lady Oracle.
- Atwood, Margaret.
- Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013. Golden notebook.
- Lessing, Doris.
- Walker, Alice, 1944- Color purple.
- Walker, Alice.
- Rhys, Jean--Technique.
- Rhys, Jean.
- English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Feminism and literature--History--20th century.
- Feminism and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (172 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cornell University Press 2018
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Molly Hite is Professor of English at Cornell University. She is the author of Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon and the novels Breach of Immunity and Class Porn.
- Summary:
- In 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Sep 2018)
- ISBN:
- 9781501727955
- 1501727958
- 9781501726316
- 1501726315
- OCLC:
- 1028953776
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.