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Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice

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Availability:In StockContributor:Susan Sniader LanserAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2018-08-15Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9781501728013ISBN-10:1501728016UPC:9781501728013Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Women Authors, Feminist, Feminism & Feminist TheorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.97Product ID:SCEKX2YYWQ

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 Bront?, 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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9781501728013ISBN-10:1501728016UPC:9781501728013Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Women Authors, Feminist, Feminism & Feminist TheorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.97Product ID:SCEKX2YYWQ

Susan Sniader Lanser is Professor Emerita of English, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Comparative Literature at Brandeis University. She is the author of The Narrative Act: Point of View in Prose Fiction and The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic 1565-1830.


Publisher: Cornell University Press

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