A rhetorical analysis of Virginia Woolf's feminist tracts and her novels
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Authors
Katz, Linda Sternberg
Issue Date
1976-05
Type
Electronic thesis
Thesis
Thesis
Language
ENG
Keywords
Communication and rhetoric
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Abstract
This thesis compares the rhetoric of Virginia Woolf's nonfiction and her fiction. The first part examines the author's long feminist treatises A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, analyzing logos or ideas as they cluster around the themes of sexual divisiveness. women's nature. and androgyny, and ethos or character of the writer. including her use of language. The second part of the thesis uses the findings of the first part in an exploration of the variety and independence of the female characters in Virginia Woolf's fiction. Each of her nine novels is treated separately, with fullest treatment given to her first novel, The Voyage Out; to a central work. Mrs. Dalloway; and to her final novel, Between the Acts. The conclusion is a coordination of the study of character in the fiction with the study of polemical ethos and logos.
Description
May 1976
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
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Publisher
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY