Fictions of Authority Women Writers and Narrative Voice
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...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca
Cornell University Press
1992
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (304 p.) |
| ISBN: | t960-ht64 9781501723087 9781501723094 9781501728013 9780801423772 |
| Access: | Open Access |