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  title info:
    title: Woolf's ambiguities
    sub title: tonal modernism, narrative strategy, feminist precursors
  name:
    name part: Hite, Molly
    name part: 1947-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 226 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Molly Hite.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Woolf, Virginia
      name part: 1882-1941
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Woolf, Virginia
      name part: 1882-1941
  subject:
    topic: Ambiguity in literature
  subject:
    topic: Modernism (Literature)
  subject:
    topic: English fiction
    topic: Women authors
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Ambiguity in literature
  subject:
    topic: English fiction
    topic: Women authors
  subject:
    topic: Modernism (Literature)
  classification: PR6045.O72 Z6975 2017
  classification: 823/.912
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Woolf's ambiguities
    name:
      name part: Hite, Molly, 1947-
    origin info:
      publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017
    identifier: (DLC) 2017014833
  identifier: 9781501714450
  identifier: 1501714457
  identifier: 2017014440
  record info:
    record content source: NIC/DLC
    record creation date: 170327
    record change date: 20171219135640.0
    record identifier: in00003897300
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng