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“What Else Can I Do But Write?” Discursive Disruption and the Ethics of Style in Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Teresa Winterhalter
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Abstract

This essay suggests that to understand the pacifist position Woolf takes in her critique of fascism and patriarchy, it is essential to recognize how, not only why, she explores the relationship between narrative and political authority. Creating an intersection between a feminist conceptualization of Woolf's narrative technique and philosophical notions about ethical forms of representation, it argues that Woolf fragments the locus of narrative authority in Three Guineas to model a stylistic resistance to linguistic practices she thinks support totalitarian ideology.

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Hypatia , Volume 18 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Women, Art, and Aesthetics , Fall Winter 2003 , pp. 236 - 257
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Copyright © 2003 by Hypatia, Inc.

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