Supplementary Reading 2

 

Abel, Elizabeth. “(E)Merging Identities: The Dynamics of Female Friendship in Contemporary    Fiction by Women. Signs 6.3 (1981): 413-35.

Atwood, Margaret. “On Being a “Woman Writer”: Paradoxes and Dilemmas.” Second Words:             Selected Critical Prose. Boston: Beacon P, 1984. 190-204.

Barreca, Regina. ed. Last Laughs: Perspectives on Women and Comedy. New York: Garden and     Breach, 1988.

Booth, Wayne C. Rhetoric of Irony. Chicago: Uof Chicago P, 1974.

Brownstein, Rachel M. Becoming a Heroine: Reading about Women in Novels. [1982] rpt. New      York: Penguin, 1984.

Cheung, King-Kok. “Don’t Tell”: Imposed Silences in the Color Purple and The Woman         Warrior.” PMLA 103.2 (1988): 162-74.

Delaney, Sheila. “Ambivalence in Utopia: The American Feminist Utopias of Charlotte P. Gilman           and Marge Piercy.” in Writing Woman: Women Writers and Women in Literature, Medieval to Modern. New York: Shocken Books, 1983. 157-80.

Dipple, Elizabeth.  The Unresolvable Plot: Reading Contemporary Fiction.  New York:       Routledge, Chapman, & Hall, 1988.

Donovan, Josephine. ed. Feminist Literary Criticism: Explorations in Theory.  Lexington: UP of      Kentucky, 1975.

DuPlessis, Rachel Blau. Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century      Women Writers.  Blomington: Indiana UP, 1985.

Dyson, A. E. The Crazy Fabric: Essays in Irony. London: MacMillan, 1965.

Eakin, Paul John. Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention. Princeton:            Princeton UP, 1985.

Eco, Umberto. “Postmodernism, Irony, the Enjoyable.” Postscript to The Name of the Rose.

            trans. William Weaver. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.

Elshtain, Jean Bethke. “Feminist Discourse and Its Discontents: Language, Power, and Meaning.”          Signs 7.3 (1982): 603-21.

Fifer, Elizabeth. “The Dialect and Letters of The Color Purple.” in Rainwater, 158.

Frye, Joanne S. Living Stories, Telling Lives: Women and the Novel in Contemporary        Experience.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1986.

---. “The Woman Warrior: Claiming Narrative Power, Recreating Female Selfhood.” in Kessler-Harris, 297.

Gardiner, Judith Kegan. “On Female Identity and Writing by Women.” Critical Inquiry 8.2      (1981):347-61.

Goldsmith, Elizabeth C. ed. Writing the Female Voice: Essays on Epistolary Literature.  Boston:      Northeastern UP, 1989.

Gusdorf, George. “Conditions and Limits of Autobiography.” in Olney, 28-48.

Hansen, Elaine Tuttle. “The Double narrative Structure of Small Changes.” in Rainwater, 209-28.

Henley, Nancy M. “This New Species That Seeks a New Language: On Sexism in language and           language change.” in Penfield, 3-27.

Homans, Margaret. “Her Very Own Howl: The Ambiguities of Representation in Recent            Women’s Fiction.” Signs 9.2 (1983):186-205,

Irwin, William Robert.  The Game of the Impossible: A Rhetoric of Fantasy. Urbana: U of Illinois      P, 1976.

Janeway, Elizabeth. Cross Sections from a Decade of Change. New York: William Morrow,             1982.

Jelinek, Estelle, ed. Women’s Autobiography: Essays in Criticism.  Bloomington: Indiana UP,            1980.

Juhasz, Suzanne. “Towards a Theory of Form in Feminist Autobiography: Kate Millett’s Flying             and Sita;: Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior.” in Jelinek, 221-37.

Kauffman, Linda. “Special Delivery: Twenty-first Century Epistolarity in The Handmaid’s Tale.            in Goldsmith, 221-44.

Kessler-Harris, Alice and William McBrien, eds. Faith of a (Woman) Writer. Conn: Greenwood         P, 1988.

Kolodny, Annette. “A Map for Rereading: Or, Gender and the Interpretation of Literary Texts.”           

            New Literary History. 11.3 (1980): 454.

Miller, Margeret. “Threads of Identity in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior.” Biography           6.1 (1983): 13-33.

Miller, Nancy K. “Emphasis Added: Plots and Plausibilities in Women’s Fiction.” PMLA 96.1   (1981):46.

Muecke, D. C. Irony [The Critical Idiom Series, no. 13] London: Methuen, 1970.

Olney, James, ed. Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical. Princeton: Princeton UP,            1980.

Ostriker, Alicia Suskin. Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America.      Boston: Beacon P, 1986.

Pearlman, Mickey, ed. American Women Writing Fiction: Memory, Identity, Family, Space.           Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1989.

Penfield, Joyce. ed. Women and Language in Transition. Albany: State Univ. of New York P,          

            1987.

Rainwater, Catherine and William J. Scheick, eds. Contemporary American Women Writers:             Narrative Strategies.  Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1985.

Rubenstein, Roberta. Boundaries of the Self: Gender, Culture, Fiction. Urbana: U of Illinois P,          1987.

Snitow, Ann Barr. “The Front Line: Notes on Sex in Novels by Women, 1969-1979.” Signs 5.4                        (1980):702.18.

Spacks, Patricia Meyer. The Female Imagination. New York:Knopf, 1975.

Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 3 (1984). Special Issue: Feminist Issues in Literary         Scholarship.[double issue]

Tulsa Studies...5.2 (1986): 251-72 . Laurie Finke’s “The Rhetoric of Marginality: Why I do     Feminist Theory.”  Response to “Special Issue.”

Van Den Bergh, Nan. “Renaming: Vehicle for Empowerment.” in Penfield, 1