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2) Silences
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"In Silences, Tillie Olsen ... confronts ... the crucial relationship between circumstances--class, color, sex, the times and climate into which one is born--and the creation of written literature. These essays ... explore the problems of literary 'silences' in the careers of both the acknowledged great and those who ceased to write ... Tillie Olsen focuses on the silences that are most immediate to her own experience: how a negative literary climate,...
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A collection of five essays (plus preface and afterword) by noted feminist critics, this book provides an overview of the existing body of the feminist literary criticism, promotes and understanding of the issues feminist critics are currently discussing among themselves and with other critics, and proposes a theoretical frame work for understanding this new critical direction. It is the first collection to deal exclusively with certain theoretical...
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Felski presents a critical account of current American and European feminist literary theory, and analyzes contemporary fiction by women to show that no theorist can identify a specifically "female" or "feminine" kind of writing without reference to what gender means at a given historical moment. She argues that the idea of a feminist aesthetic is a non-issue needlessly pursued by feminists. She calls for a consideration of the social and cultural...
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