| Description |
viii, 310 pages ; 24 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Women writers : texts and contexts |
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Women writers (New Brunswick, N.J.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-307). |
| Contents |
Introduction / Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt -- Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen -- Background to the story. Silences in literature ; Personal statement / Tillie Olsen -- Critical essays. Circumstances of silence : literary representation and Tillie Olsen's Omaha past / Linda Ray Pratt -- From the thirties : Tillie Olsen and the radical tradition / Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt -- Feminist spiritual vision / Elaine Neil Orr -- Death labors / Joanne Trautmann Banks -- Motherhood as source and silencer of creativity / Mara Faulkner -- To "bear my mother's name" : Künstlerromane by women writers / Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- "No one's private ground" : a Bakhtinian reading of Tillie Olsen's Tell me a riddle / Constance Coiner. |
| Subject |
Olsen, Tillie. Tell me a riddle.
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Cancer -- Patients -- Fiction.
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Married people -- Fiction.
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Working class -- Fiction.
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Older women -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Olsen, Tillie.
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Rosenfelt, Deborah Silverton.
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| ISBN |
081352136X cloth |
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9780813521367 cloth |
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0813521378 paperback |
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9780813521374 paperback |
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