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Private Voices, Public Lives : Women Speak title: On the Literary Life author: Nelson, Nancy Owen publisher: University of North Texas Press isbn10 | asin: 0929398882 print isbn13: 9780929398884 ebook isbn13: 9780585281667 language: English American literature--Women authors-- History and criticism, Literature--Women authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc, subject Feminism and literature--United States, Women and literature--United States, Authorship--Sex differences, Self in literature. publication date: 1995 lcc: PS147.P75 1995eb ddc: 810.9/9287 American literature--Women authors-- History and criticism, Literature--Women authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc, subject: 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 xiii Jane Tompkins Introduction xvii Nancy Owen Nelson I Work/Love Paradigm "Tangled Together Like Badly Cast Fishing Line": The 3 Reader and the Text in Katherine Anne Porter's "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" Ann L. Putnam Love, Work, and Willa Cather 11 Ann Fisher-Wirth The Voices from the Little House 19 Ann Romines Rewriting the Love Plot Our Way: Women and Work 29 Susan J. Rosowski II The Text as Mirror Nancy DrewThe Perfect Solution 41 Carol S. Chadwick Wrestling with the Mother and the Father: "His" and 54 "Her" in Adrienne Rich Betty S. Flowers Page viii In Search of the Androgynous Self 64 Nancy Owen Nelson From Robot to Roarer 72 Jo C. Searles A White Bird Flying Straight Down 86 Catherine E. Lamb Being an I-Witness: My Life as a Lesbian Teacher 99 Barbara DiBernard Mother/Daughter Dialog(ic)s in, around and about Amy 111 Tan's The Joy Luck Club Bonnie Braendlin Offshore Women: A Personal Log 125 Nancy Pagh Metamorphosis: Mutations of a Hungarian Continental 141 Drifter into an American Woman Olga Klekner TrappedThen Release by a Gift from the Sea 153 Lois Hassan Speaking Across Boundaries and Sharing the Loss of a 163 Child Melody Graulich Trailing West 183 Susan Naramore Maher Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, Revisited 194 Michele Potter
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