Listening to Silences: New Essays in Feminist Criticism

Book Overview

Thirty years ago, in a lecture at the Radcliffe Institute, Tillie Olsen first addressed the problem of silences in literature--paving the way for future explorations of the subject, including her landmark work, Silences. The subject of silences and silencing--as fact, as trope, as lens through which to understand literary history--has been central to feminist criticism ever since.
In Listening to Silences, a group of distinguished feminist literary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019507307X
• ISBN13: 9780195073072
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"