Rhetoric Review Dec 2010

Blindness and Insight: ConsideringEthosin Virginia Woolf'sThree Guineas

Jennifer A. Rich Hofstra University

Abstract

This essay considers how Virginia Woolf's personal and social anti-Semitism disrupts creation of a stable ethos in her political tract, Three Guineas. The article uses De Man's concept of blindness and insight to interrogate Woolf's own ideological blindness and forwards liminality as a frame within which to understand ethos in this work.

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Rhetoric Review
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2010-12-17
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10.1080/07350198.2011.530118
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