Contemporary Feminist Fiction and a Case for Expanding Rhetorical Narratology (eBook)

Katherine J. Weese (Autor)

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2025
Ohio State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8142-8460-5 (ISBN)

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In Contemporary Feminist Fiction and a Case for Expanding Rhetorical Narratology, Katherine J. Weese explores intersections among rhetorical, unnatural, and feminist narrative theories and post-postmodern theory to argue that an expanded rhetorical poetics offers the most comprehensive model for illuminating recent works that employ unnatural devices for feminist purposes. This pluralist narratological framework is a vital counterpoint to theorists' tendency to read twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels through a post-postmodernist or metamodernist lens that overlooks unnatural, feminist, and rhetorical narrative theories. Examining Ali Smith's The Accidental and Hotel World, Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, Toni Morrison's Beloved, Kate Atkinson's A God in Ruins and Life After Life, and Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being, Weese demonstrates how various narratological theories inform rather than compete with one another. Through an expanded rhetorical poetics, including a refined version of James Phelan's MTS (mimetic, thematic, synthetic) model, she reframes post-postmodern theorists' concerns with communicative function through a narratological lens to make the case that exploring the rhetorical function of unnatural devices challenges and extends the claims of narrow metamodern readings.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.10.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• ISBN-10: 0-8142-8460-4 / 0814284604
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8142-8460-5 / 9780814284605