Contemporary Feminist Fiction and a Case for Expanding Rhetorical Narratology

Name: Contemporary Feminist Fiction and a Case for Expanding Rhetorical Narratology
Brand: The Ohio State University Press
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By Weese, Katherine J.

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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.

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Number of Pages:: 212
Release Date:: 2025-10-20
Publication Date:: 2025-10-20
Publisher:: The Ohio State University Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0814215998
ISBN13:: 9780814215999
Weight:: 502 g
Height:: 157 cm
Width:: 235 cm
Thickness:: 17 cm

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