Fictions of Authority(English, Paperback, Lanser Susan Sniader)

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Fictions of Authority(English, Paperback, Lanser Susan Sniader) is written by Lanser Susan Sniader and published by Cornell University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0801480205 (ISBN 10) and 9780801480201 (ISBN 13).

Drawing on narratological and feminist theory, Susan Sniader Lanser explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the present. She sheds light on the history of "voice" as a narrative strategy and as a means of attaining social power. She considers the dynamics in personal voice in authors such as Mary Shelley, Charlotte Bronte, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jamaica Kincaid. In writers who attempt a "communal voice"-including Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Gaskell, Joan Chase, and Monique Wittig-she finds innovative strategies that challenge the conventions of Western narrative.