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Contemporary American women writers : narrative strategies / Catherine Rainwater and William J. Scheick, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- American fiction--Women authors--Bibliography.
- Narration (Rhetoric)--History--20th century.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1985.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ann Beattie, Annie Dillard, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Marge Piercy, Anne Redmon, Anne Tyler, and Alice Walker all seem to be especially concerned with narrative management. The ten essays in this book raise new and intriguing questions about the ways these leading women writers appropriate and transform generic norms and ultimately revise literary tradition to make it more inclusive of female experience, vision, and expression.The contributors to this volume discover diverse narrative strategies. Beattie, Dillard, Paley, and Redmon in divergent ways rely
- Contents:
- Ann Beattie, the art of the missing / Carolyn Porter
- Grace Paley, chaste compactness / Ronald Schleifer
- Annie Dillard, narrative fringe / William J. Scheick
- Anne Redmon, the fugal procedure of Music and silence / Catherine Rainwater
- Cynthia Ozick, invention & orthodoxy / Ellen Pifer
- Anne Tyler, medusa points & contact points / Mary F. Robertson
- Alice Walker, the dialect & letters of The color purple / Elizabeth Fifer
- Maxine Hong Kingston, narrative technique & female identity / Suzanne Juhasz
- Toni Morrison, mastery of narrative / Linda W. Wagner
- Marge Piercy, the double narrative structure of Small changes / Elaine Tuttle Hansen & William J. Scheick.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8131-0168-9
- 0-8131-5715-3
- OCLC:
- 560083520
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