Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice / / Susan Sniader Lanser
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| Autore: |
Lanser Susan Sniader <1944->
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| Titolo: |
Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice / / Susan Sniader Lanser
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| Pubblicazione: | Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2018] |
| ©1992 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (287 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 823.009/9287 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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) | |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Fictions of Authority |
| ISBN: | 1-5017-2801-6 |
| 1-5017-2308-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910272351903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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