Strategies of Reticence: Silence and Meaning in the Works of Jane Austen, Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter, and Joan Didion

Strategies of Reticence: Silence and Meaning in the Works of Jane Austen, Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter, and Joan Didion

About/SubjectJane Austen, Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Didion
PublisherUniversity Press of Virginia
Copyright HolderRector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
FormatHardback
LanguageEnglish
LocationCharlottesville, Virginia; London, England
Copyright1990
Pages / Font228 pages
ISBN 100-8139-1262-8
ISBN 100813912628
Library of Congress Call NumberPS376.S54S76 1990
Library of Congress Call Number89-29777
Dewey Decimal Classification Number813.009'9287—dc20
ChaptersPreface - vii One - Introduction: Silence, the Critics, and the Good Little Girl - 1 Two - What they Don't Say: Conversational and Narrative Withholdings in Austen's Novels - 24 Three - The Duplicitous Art of Willa Cathar - 66 Four - Katherine Anne Porter and the Reticent Style - 112 Five - Joan Didion and the Presence of Absence - 147 Afterword - 188 Notes - 195 Bibliography - 217
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