Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice /

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 attaining...

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1. autor: Lanser, Susan Sniader, 1944- (Autor)
Format: Elektroniczne E-book
Język:angielski
Wydane: London : Cornell University Press, [1992]
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Streszczenie: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 attaining social power. She considers the dynamics in personal voice in authors such as Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jamaica Kincaid. In writers who attempt a "communal voice"--Including Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Gaskell, Joan Chase, and Monique Wittig--she finds innovative strategies that challenge the conventions of Western narrative
Opis fizyczny:1 online resource (304 pages).
ISBN:9781501723094
Ograniczenie dostępu:Open Access