{"product_id":"woolfs-ambiguities-tonal-modernism-narrative-strategy-feminist-precursors-hardback-9781501714450","title":"Woolf's Ambiguities; Tonal Modernism, Narrative Strategy, Feminist Precursors (Hardback) 9781501714450","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWoolf's Ambiguities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTonal Modernism, Narrative Strategy, Feminist Precursors\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMolly Hite (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501714450\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 December 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e244 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA hugely persuasive account of Woolf's textual originality... an elegant, well-researched monorgraph that makes a significant contribution to Woolf studies.\u003c\/p\u003e (Virginia Woolf Bulletin) \u003cp\u003eAn invaluable contribution to Woolf studies, offering provocative insights of specific texts and a way to read her formal experiments and revisions as part of an ethicoaesthetic strategy that she deployed across her entire \u003ci\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e (Woolf Studies Annual)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/b\u003e Hite shows how \u003ci\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Voyage Out\u003c\/i\u003e borrow from and implicitly criticize Robins's work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHite presents and develops the concept of narrative tone as a means to enrich and complicate our readings of Woolf's modernist novels. In \u003ci\u003eWoolf's Ambiguities\u003c\/i\u003e, 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;\" \u003ci\u003eThe Pargiters\u003c\/i\u003e, Woolf created a brilliant new narrative form allowing her to make unequivocal value judgments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607769837848,"sku":"9781501714450","price":41.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/woolfs-ambiguities-tonal-modernism-narrative-strategy-feminist-precursors-hardback-9781501714450","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}