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Private Voices, Public Lives : Women Speak On the Literary Life
author
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Nelson, Nancy Owen
publisher
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University of North Texas Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0929398882
print isbn13
:
9780929398884
ebook isbn13
:
9780585281667
language
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English
subject
American literature--Women authors--History and criticism, Literature--Women authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc, Feminism and literature--United States, Women and literature--United States, Authorship--Sex differences, Self in literature.
publication date
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1995
lcc
:
PS147.P75 1995eb
ddc
:
810.9/9287
subject
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American literature--Women authors--History and criticism, Literature--Women authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc, Feminism and literature--United States, Women and literature--United States, Authorship--Sex differences, Self in literature.
Page iii
Private Voices, Public Lives Women Speak on the Literary Life
Edited by Nancy Owen Nelson
FOREWORD BY JANE TOMPKINS
Page iv
1995 University of North Texas Press All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America.
First edition 1995
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Rights to individual essays retained by their authors. Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to:
Permissions University of North Texas Press PO Box 13856 Denton TX 76203
The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48.1984. Binding materials have been chosen for durability.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Private voices, public lives: essays on text and the private self / edited by Nancy Owen Nelson p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-929398-88-2 1. American literature Women authorsHistory and criticism. 2. LiteratureWomen authorsHistory and criticismTheory, etc. 3. Feminism and literatureUnited States. 4. Women and literature United States. 5. AuthorshipSex differences. 6. Self in literature. I. Nelson, Nancy Owen, 1946 PS147.P75 1995 94-48327 110.9'9287dc20 CIP
Page v
To the memory of Lorne N. "Larry" Colter 19301995 Who showed me his deep and burning passion for life
Page vii
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
xi
Foreword
Jane Tompkins
xiii
Introduction
Nancy Owen Nelson
xvii
I Work/Love Paradigm
"Tangled Together Like Badly Cast Fishing Line": The Reader and the Text in Katherine Anne Porter's "Pale Horse, Pale Rider"
Ann L. Putnam
3
Love, Work, and Willa Cather
Ann Fisher-Wirth
11
The Voices from the Little House
Ann Romines
19
Rewriting the Love Plot Our Way: Women and Work
Susan J. Rosowski
29
II The Text as Mirror
Nancy DrewThe Perfect Solution
Carol S. Chadwick
41
Wrestling with the Mother and the Father: "His" and "Her" in Adrienne Rich
Betty S. Flowers
54
Page viii
In Search of the Androgynous Self
Nancy Owen Nelson
64
From Robot to Roarer
Jo C. Searles
72
A White Bird Flying Straight Down
Catherine E. Lamb
86
Being an I-Witness: My Life as a Lesbian Teacher
Barbara DiBernard
99
Mother/Daughter Dialog(ic)s in, around and about Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
Bonnie Braendlin
111
Offshore Women: A Personal Log
Nancy Pagh
125
Metamorphosis: Mutations of a Hungarian Continental Drifter into an American Woman
Olga Klekner
141
TrappedThen Release by a Gift from the Sea
Lois Hassan
153
Speaking Across Boundaries and Sharing the Loss of a Child
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