Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice /

Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice /

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Drawing on narratological and feminist theory, Susan Sniader Lanser explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the present. She sheds light on the history of "voice" as a narrative strategy and as a means of...

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Main Author: Lanser, Susan Sniader, 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Cornell University Press, [1992]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Vertelkunst.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Erzähltechnik
Erzähler
Frauenliteratur
Women and literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
French fiction > Women authors.
English fiction > Women authors.
Authorship > Sex differences.
American fiction > Women authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Feminist.
Femmes et litterature > France.
Femmes et litterature > Anglophonie.
Écrits de femmes français > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes americains > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
Narration.
Femmes et litterature.
Art d'ecrire > Differences entre sexes.
Roman français > Histoire et critique.
Roman americain > Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais > Histoire et critique.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
French fiction > History and criticism.
American fiction > History and criticism.
English fiction > History and criticism.
Women and literature > France.
Women and literature > English-speaking countries.
French fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Englisch.
USA
France.
English-speaking countries.
Riccoboni, Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mezieres.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Toward a feminist poetics of narrative voice
  • The rise of the novel, the fall of the voice: Juliette Catesby's silencing
  • In a class by herself: self-silencing in Riccoboni's Abeille
  • Sense and reticence: Jane Austen's "Indirections"
  • Woman of Maxims: Geoge Eliot and the realist imperative
  • Fictions of absence: feminism, modernism, Virginia Woolf
  • Unspeakable voice: Toni Morrison's postmodern authority
  • Dying for publicity: Mistriss Henley's self-silencing
  • Romantic voice: the hero's text
  • Jane Eyre's legacy: the powers and dangers of singularity
  • African-American personal voice: "her hungriest lack"
  • Solidarity and silence: Millenium Hall and The wrongs of woman
  • Single resistances: the communal "I" in Gaskell, Jewett, and Audoux
  • (Dif)fusions: modern fiction and communal form
  • Full circle: Les Guerilleres.

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