Silences
by Olsen, Tillie
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Buff wrappers printed in brown, spine titled in pencil. Publisher's promotional notice loosely inserted, publication date marked
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Silences was the major critical work by Tillie Olsen, addressing "the relationship of circumstance; - including class, color, sex, the times, climate into which one is born - to the creation of literature." The book grew out of a talk delivered at the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, in which Olsen distinguished between the natural silences that reflect "that necessary time for renewal, lying fallow, gestation" in a writer's career and those silences arising from oppression and neglect, "the unnatural thwarting of what struggles to come into being, but cannot." Olsen considers the marginalization and frustration of women writers, and devotes the second half of Silences to the creative struggles of Herman Melville, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Anne Porter, and others.
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- Seller
- James Cummins Bookseller (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 338594
- Title
- Silences
- Author
- Olsen, Tillie
- Format/Binding
- [2], xiv, 289, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Buff wrappers printed in brown, spine titled in pencil. Publisher's promotional notice loosely inserted, publication date marked
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, uncorrected proof
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
- Place of Publication
- [New York]
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Women | Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Social Thought;
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