Research Catalog

Title

The Intimate critique : autobiographical literary criticism / edited by Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey & Frances Murphy Zauhar.

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Freedman, Diane P.
• Frey, Olivia
• Zauhar, Frances Murphy

Description

viii, 312 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• American literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• English literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• Feminist literary criticism > English-speaking countries
• Critics > English-speaking countries > Biography
• Authors and readers > English-speaking countries
• Criticism > English-speaking countries
• Reader-response criticism
• Autobiography
• Reader response criticism
• Autobiographies as Topic
• autobiography (genre)
• Authors and readers
• Criticism
• Critics
• English literature > Theory, etc
• Feminist literary criticism
• Literaturkritik
• Literatuurreceptie
• Literatuurkritiek
• Autobiografieën
• Engels
• Amerikaans
• Critics > Biography
• English-speaking countries

Genre/Form

• Autobiography
• Autobiographies.
• Biographies.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical reference (p. [303]-308).

Contents

Border crossing as method and motif in contemporary American writing, or, how Freud helped me case the joint / D.P. Freedman -- Me and my shadow / J. Tompkins -- Beyond literary Darwinism : women's voices and critical discourse / O. Frey -- "Everyday use" : my sojourn at Parchman Farm / C.B. Torsney -- Excerpts from letters to friends / S. Koppelman -- Social circles : being a report on J. Hillis Miller's campus visitation / L.R. Robertson -- Touchstones and bedrocks : learning the stories we need / V. Ekanger -- Creative voices : women reading and women's writing / F.M. Zauhar -- Breaking silence : The woman warrior / S.N. Garner -- Different silences / T. Yamamoto -- "What's in a name?" : some meanings of blackness / H.L. Gates, Jr. -- Poetry and the age : "A girl in a library" to Randall Jarrell / S.M. Brown -- My friend, Joyce Carol Oates / B. Daly -- Somebody must say these things : an essay for my mother / M. Graulich -- The scarlet brewer and the voice of the colonized / S. Geok-lin Lim -- Dividing fences / C.S. Taylor -- What do women really mean? Thoughts on women's diaries and lives / S. Bunkers -- Between the Medusa and the abyss : reading Jane Eyre, reading myself / E. Brown -- Rereading Middlemarch, rereading myself / P. Carlton -- The crippling of the third world : Shiva Naipaul's heritage / R. Kanhai-Brunton -- Penelope's web / G. Griffin -- "Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around" : reading the Narrative of Frederick Douglass / D. Hubbard -- Catharine Trotter Cockburn and me : a duography / Kendall -- In between abject & object : the mourning sickness of the expectant mother, or, three movements of the blues in B minor / D. Beckelman -- La Ronde of children and mothers / J. Balén.

ISBN

• 0822312921
• 9780822312925
• 0822312859
• 9780822312857

LCCN

92028049

OCLC

• ocm26309459
• 26309459
• SCSB-1975531

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library