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03475aam a2200433 i 4500 001 C68D75D8F11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180104010254 008 170327t20172017nyu b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017014440 020 $a 1501714457 020 $a 9781501714450 035 $a (OCoLC)979993261 040 $a NIC/DLC $b eng $e rda $c COO $d DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d BDX $d YDX $d BTCTA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR6045.O72 $b Z6975 2017 082 00 $a 823/.912 $2 23 100 1 $a Hite, Molly, $d 1947- $e author. 245 10 $a Woolf's ambiguities : $b tonal modernism, narrative strategy, feminist precursors / $c Molly Hite. 264 1 $a Ithaca : $b Cornell University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a xvi, 226 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 8 $a 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. 600 10 $a Woolf, Virginia, $d 1882-1941 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a Woolf, Virginia, $d 1882-1941. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00033879 650 0 $a Ambiguity in literature. 650 0 $a Modernism (Literature) 650 0 $a English fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a Ambiguity in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00806740 650 7 $a English fiction $x Women authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910866 650 7 $a Modernism (Literature) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01024455 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Hite, Molly, 1947- $t Woolf's ambiguities. $d Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017 $z 9781501714474 $w (DLC) 2017014833 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20181116040334.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180104062628.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C68D75D8F11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search