Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice
Susan Sniader Lanser, National Endowment for the Humanities Open Book ProgramDrawing 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.
Rok:
2018
Wydawnictwo:
Cornell University Press
Język:
english
Strony:
304
ISBN 10:
1501723081
ISBN 13:
9781501723087
Plik:
PDF, 22.86 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2018