| Description |
iv, 244 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 239-244. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Leonore Hoffmann -- Part I. Overviews -- Women's vernacular literature : teaching the mother tongue / Margo Culley -- The languages of oral testimony and women's literature / Elizabeth A. Meese -- Part II. Analyses of specific text -- Letters as literature : the Prestons of Baltimore, letters and diaries : the persona and the real woman-a case study / Virginia Walcott Beauchamp-- Writer anxiety versus the need for community in the Botts family letters / Susan S. Kissel -- The pariah and the author : an analysis of The Maimie papers / Rose Kamel -- An analysis of the oral testimony of Edna Anderson / Alice T. Gasque -- The oral testimony of Edna Anderson / Susan Sherman and Alice T. Gasque -- Captives in paradise : women on the early American frontier / Annette Kolodny -- Part III. Using personal narratives in the classroom -- The usefulness of women's nontraditional literature in the traditional literature-and-composition course / John Schilb -- A lost diary found : the art of the everyday / Dure Jo Gillikin -- Hearing voices : oral history as an aid to reading / Judith Stitzel -- Women's shorter autobiographical writings : expression, identity, and form / Susan Waugh -- Preparing a collection of regional autobiographical materials for use in the composition classroom / Susan S. Kissel -- Literature in performance in The place where the partridge drums / Susan Ward with Joan Olsen Donovan -- Telling one's story : women's journals then and now / Elouise M. Bell. |
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American literature -- Women authors -- Study and teaching.
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Women and literature -- United States -- Study and teaching.
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Women -- United States -- History -- Study and teaching.
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Autobiography -- Women authors -- Study and teaching.
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Narration (Rhetoric) -- Study and teaching.
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Women in literature -- Study and teaching.
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Self in literature -- Study and teaching.
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| Added Author |
Hoffmann, Leonore, 1929-
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Culley, Margo.
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| ISBN |
0873523423 |
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0873523431 paperback |
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