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Olsen Tillie |
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Titolo |
Silences / / Tillie Olsen ; introduction by Shelley Fisher Fishkin |
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New York, New York : , : The Feminist Press at City University of New York, , 2003 |
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©2003 |
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Edizione |
[Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Literature - Women authors - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
Authorship - Sex differences |
Women and literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction: Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic: The Lessons Silences Has Taught Us; PART ONE - SILENCES; Silences in Literature - 1962; One Out of Twelve: Writers Who Are Women In Our Century 1971; Rebecca Harding Davis: Her Life and Times - 1971, 1972; PART TWO - Acerbs, Asides, Amulets, Exhumations, Sources, Deepenings, Roundings, Expansions; SILENCES IN LITERATURE - II; Silences of the Great in Achievement; Silences-Its Varieties; The Work of Creation and the Circumstances It Demands for Full Functioning |
Subterranean Forces-and the Work of Creation in Circumstances Enabling Full Function When the Claims of Creation Cannot Be Primary; The Literary Situation (1976); THE WRITER-WOMAN: ONE OUT OF TWELVE - II; Blight - Its Earliest Expression; A Sense of Wrong Voiced; Literacy; One Out of Twelve-The Figures for Writers Accorded Recognition; The Baby: The Girl-Child; The Girl; The Young Writer-Woman; The Damnation of Women; The Angel in the House; Freeing the Essential Angel; Wives, Mothers, Enablers; Blight. The Hidden Silencer-Breakdown; Hidden Blight-Professional Circumstances |
Some Effects of Having to Counter and Encounter Treatment and Circumstances as a Writer Who Is Female. Denial of Circumference. |
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Other Obstacles, Balks, Encumbrances in Coming to One's Own Voice, Vision, Circumference; PART THREE; Creativity; Potentiality. First Generation; Excerpts from Life in the Iron Mills; Miscellany; Excerpts from My Heart Laid Bare; Tillie Olsen's Reading Lists; Permission Acknowledgements; Subject Index; Name Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Special 25th anniversary edition of the landmark survey that revolutionized the view of literary history. |
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