Feminist Narrative Ethics: Tacit Persuasion in Modernist Form (THEORY INTERPRETATION NARRATIV) - Softcover

Nash, Katherine Saunders

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814252583 ISBN 13: 9780814252581

Publisher: Ohio State University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Feminist Narrative Ethics: Tacit Persuasion in Modernist Form establishes a new theory of narrative ethics by analyzing rhetorical techniques prompt readers of novels to reconsider their ethical convictions about women’s rights. Katherine Saunders Nash proposes four new theoretical paradigms: the ethics of persuasion (Virginia Woolf), of fair play (Dorothy L. Sayers), of distance (E. M. Forster), and of attention (John Cowper Powys). While offering close readings of novels by each author, this book also provides a new, interdisciplinary basis for coordinating feminist and rhetorical theories, history, and narrative technique.
 
Despite pronouncements by many theorists about the difficulty―even the impossibility―of doing justice in a single study to both history and form, Feminist Narrative Ethics proves that they can be mutually illuminating. Its approach is not only resolutely rhetorical, but resolutely historical as well. It strikes a felicitous balance between history and form that affords new understanding of the implied author concept.
 
Feminist Narrative Ethics makes a persuasive case for the necessity of locating authorial agency in the implied (rather than the actual) author and cogently explains why rhetorical theory insists on the concept of an implied (rather than an inferred) author. And it proposes a new facet of agency that rhetorical theorists have heretofore neglected: the ethics of progressive revisions to a project in manuscript.

About this title

About the Author:

Katherine Saunders Nash is assistant professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Review:

“Katherine Saunders Nash succeeds admirably in her twin aims of bringing critical assessments of modernist innovations into conversation with rhetorical and feminist narrative theory and of contributing new theoretical vocabulary to rhetorical narrative theory.” ―Alan Palmer, author of Social Minds in the Novel and Fictional Minds

About this edition

• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0814252583
• ISBN 13: 9780814252581
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192