TY - BOOK ID - 1260861 TI - The Other Side of the Story : Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives PY - 2018 SN - 0801421640 9781501726316 1501726315 9780801421648 1501726323 1501727958 9781501727955 PB - Cornell University Press DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Thematology KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Narration (Rhétorique) KW - Narrative writing KW - Verhaal (Retoriek) KW - English fiction KW - Feminism and literature KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - Rhys, Jean KW - Technique KW - Lessing, Doris May KW - Walker, Alice KW - Atwood, Margaret Eleanor KW - Atwood, Margaret, KW - Lessing, Doris, KW - Walker, Alice, KW - Technique. KW - Williams, Ella Gwendolen Rees KW - Rees Williams, Ella Gwendolen KW - Literature: history & criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1260861 AB - 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. ER -