Fiction by American women : recent views /
edited with an introduction by Winifred Farrant Bevilacqua.
- Port Washington, N.Y. : Associated Faculty Press, 1983.
- iv, 158 p. ; 24 cm.
- National university publications ; .
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Winifred Farrant Bevilacqua -- The sentimentalists / Mary Kelley -- Thanatos and Eros : Kate Chopin's The awakening / Cynthia Griffin Wolff -- "The temptation to be a beautiful object" : double standard and double bind in The house of mirth / Judith Fetterley -- The forgotten reaping-hook : sex in My Antonia / Blanche H. Gelfant -- Ida, a great American novel / Cynthia Secor -- Winning : Katherine Anne Porter's women / Barbara Harrell Carson -- The visionary art of Flannery O'Connor / Joyce Carol Oates -- "A ritual for being born twice" : Sylvia Plath's The bell jar / Marjorie G. Perloff -- Eruptions of funk : historicizing Toni Morrison / Susan Willis -- Fear of flying / Joan Reardon.
0804693153
83002816
American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
Feminist fiction, American--History and criticism.
Feminism and literature--United States.
Women and literature--United States.
PS151 / .F54 1983
813.009 / FIC
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Winifred Farrant Bevilacqua -- The sentimentalists / Mary Kelley -- Thanatos and Eros : Kate Chopin's The awakening / Cynthia Griffin Wolff -- "The temptation to be a beautiful object" : double standard and double bind in The house of mirth / Judith Fetterley -- The forgotten reaping-hook : sex in My Antonia / Blanche H. Gelfant -- Ida, a great American novel / Cynthia Secor -- Winning : Katherine Anne Porter's women / Barbara Harrell Carson -- The visionary art of Flannery O'Connor / Joyce Carol Oates -- "A ritual for being born twice" : Sylvia Plath's The bell jar / Marjorie G. Perloff -- Eruptions of funk : historicizing Toni Morrison / Susan Willis -- Fear of flying / Joan Reardon.
0804693153
83002816
American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
Feminist fiction, American--History and criticism.
Feminism and literature--United States.
Women and literature--United States.
PS151 / .F54 1983
813.009 / FIC