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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| Formaat: | Elektronisch E-boek |
| Taal: | Engels |
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London :
Cornell University Press,
[1992]
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| Reeks: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Inhoudsopgave:
- 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.