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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464717403321

Autore

Olsen Tillie

Titolo

Silences / / Tillie Olsen ; introduction by Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : The Feminist Press at City University of New York, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-55861-879-1

Edizione

[Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

809.89287

Soggetti

Literature - Women authors - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Authorship - Sex differences

Women and literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.



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

Sommario/riassunto

Special 25th anniversary edition of the landmark survey that revolutionized the view of literary history.