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...
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| Formato: | Recurso Eletrônico livro eletrônico |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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London :
Cornell University Press,
[1992]
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| coleção: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Resumo: | 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 |
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| Descrição Física: | 1 online resource (304 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781501723094 |
| Acesso: | Open Access |