Title Feminist narrative ethics : tacit persuasion in modernist form / Katherine Saunders Nash

Published Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2014] ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (x, 178 pages) Series Theory and interpretation of narrative Theory and interpretation of narrative series. Contents The ethics of distance -- The ethics of fair play -- The ethics of persuasion -- The ethics of attention -- Conclusion Summary "Feminist Narrative Ethics: Tacit Persuasion in Modernist Form establishes a new theory of narrative ethics by analyzing how rhetorical techniques can 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."--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-172) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Narration (Rhetoric) -- Moral and ethical aspects Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Moral and ethical aspects English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism Feminism and literature. Feminist literary criticism. Feminist criticism. English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Fairy tales -- Great Britain -- History and criticism English literature Fairy tales Feminism and literature Feminist literary criticism Persuasion (Rhetoric) Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780814275771 081427577X

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