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Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf, and: The In-Between of Writing: Experience and Experiment in Drabble, Duras, and Arendt (review)

journey toward identity and personal achievement primarily in terms of feminist values such as relationships and the (maternal) body. Following Kristeva, Pearce argues that subversion is achieved via semiotic or preOedipal disruptions of the symbolic, generally represented here by the narrative of the quest but also by the sentence as a univocal, linear, and teleological structure. Unlike Kristeva, Pearce assumes that the white women writers he analyzes, namely, lsak Dinesen and Virginia WoolfÂ—alienated from authority by their genderÂ—have privileged access to the semiotic and are therefore more subversive than their male counterparts, Conrad, Joyce, and Faulkner. Pearce's essentially formalist readings are intended to demonstrate that narrative structure, point of view, and presumed audience reproduce structures of domination, even in narratives that are critical of these structures. To foreground the hegemonic voice in these narratives, Pearce maintains, is to reveal their truth as well as the truth of their historical contexts. Too many critics, he argues, falsely empower marginal voices and perspectives by forgetting their subordination to dominant culture. Pearce's positivistic and reductive view of history and the politics of narration minimizes the capacity of modernist narrative techniques to revise univocal narratives and the narrow collective consciousness they produce and sustain. More complex examination of the marginal in Faulkner, for example, might have altered Pearce's description of Southern oratory and the tall-tale in Faulkner, without so much as a nod to African-American oral traditions, as "American extensions of the high style that colonized Irishmen imitated so well and the adventure story that rationalized and energized British imperialism." To foreground the stories and perspectives of the marginalized voices that disrupt the narratives of Joyce, Faulkner, and Woolf is thus not to misrepresent the truth of their narratives or historical contexts, as Pearce suggests, but, In response to these marginalized voices and in the interest of mediating the enduring political conflicts they represent, to reshape our consciousness of them.