Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice by Susan Sniader Lanser

Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice by Susan Sniader Lanser

Author:Susan Sniader Lanser
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Tags: 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., Publisher:Cornell University Press, Published:2018, Related ISBN:9780801480201, DOI:10.1353/book.58030, Language:English, OCLC:1057688719


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