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: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press
2018
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422308306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
