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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Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
1. Toward a Feminist Poetics of Narrative Voice --
2. The Rise of The Novel , The Fall of the Voice : Juliette Catesby's Silencing --
Part I. Authorial Voice --
3. In a Class by Herself: Self-Silencing in Riccoboni's Abeille --
4. Sense and Reticence: Jane Austen's " Indirections" --
5. Woman of Maxims: George Eliot and the Realist Imperative --
6. Fictions of Absence : Feminism, Modernism, Virginia Woolf --
7. Unspeakable Voice: Toni Morrison's Postmodern Authority --
Part II. Personal Voice --
8. Dying for Publicity: Mistriss Henley's Self-Silencing --
9. Romantic Voice: The Hero's Text --
10. Jane Eyre's Legacy: The Powers and Dangers of Singularity --
11. African-American Personal Voice:" Her Hungriest Lack" --
Part III. Communal Voice --
12. Solidarity and Silence : Millenium Hall and the Wrongs of Woman --
13. Single Resistances: The Communal " I " in Gaskell, Jewett, and Audoux --
14. (Dif)Fusions: Modern Fiction And Communal Form --
15. Full Circle: Les Guérillères --
Index
Hauptverfasser:
Lanser, Susan Sniader, en Book Program, National Endowment for the Humanities Op (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
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Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press 2018
Cornell University Press, [2018]
Zusammenfassung:
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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1 online resource (287 pages)
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Includes index.
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In English.
ISBN:
9781501728013
1501728016
9781501723087
1501723081
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Open access
Schlagworte:
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
French fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Authorship > Sex differences.
Women and literature > English-speaking countries.
Women and literature > France.
Narration (Rhetoric)
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