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The Critical Response to Tillie Olsen » Read Now
by Kay Hoyle Nelson, Nancy Lyman Huse. 281 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The selections of criticism in this anthology reveal the social, cultural, and economic contexts of the writings of Tillie Olsen. The essays link Olsen with socialism, feminism, and the American literary tradition, and show the potential for activism cultivated in her early years. They reflect her...
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The selections of criticism in this anthology reveal the social, cultural, and economic contexts of the writings of Tillie Olsen. The essays link Olsen with socialism, feminism, and the American literary tradition, and show the potential for activism cultivated in her early years. They reflect her concern with women and children, and explore her belief in the power of the written and spoken word. The volume also serves as a companion to other full-length studies of Olsen.
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Tillie Olsen, in The Progressive » Read Now
by Anne-Marie Cusac. 6 pgs.

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...Tillie Olsen by ANNE-MARIE CUSAC `I havent...are the people whom it has affected. Tillie Olsen, the beloved fiction writer, is self-effacing...several hours. Q: Why do you...
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Jewish Women Fiction Writers (inlcudes a chapter on Tillie Olsen) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 177 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Flowing against the Traditional Stream: Consciousness in Tillie Olsen's 'Tell Me a Riddle', in MELUS » Read Now
by Lydia A. Schultz. 19 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Possibility in the Writing of Tillie Olsen, "In patriarchal America, without...which these women looked toward Olsen: Tillie speaks of our responsibility to...Works Cited...
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On the Side of the Mother: 'Yonnondio' and 'Call It Sleep', in Studies in American Fiction » Read Now
by Elaine Orr. 15 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...in 1974. See Deborah Rosenfelt, "From the Thirties: Tillie Olsen and the Radical Tradition," in Feminist Criticism and...Anzia Yezierskas "The Fat of the Land," 1920). (13)...
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Crossing the Double-Cross: The Practice of Feminist Criticism (includes "Deconstructing the Sexual Politic: Virginia Woolf and Tillie Olsen") » Read Now
by Elizabeth A. Meese. 180 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Sexual Politic: Virginia Woolf and Tillie Olsen / 89 CHAPTER...of the present-- Robinson, Olsen, and Walker respectively. These...is effectively diminished; as Tillie...
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"That Joyous Certainty": History and Utopia in Tillie Olsen's Depression-Era Literature, in Twentieth Century Literature » Read Now
by Anthony Dawahare. 15 pgs.

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Strong with the not yet in the now . . . - Tillie Olsen, "Tell Me a Riddle" (109) Tillie Olsen is one of the few American proletarian writers...Better Red: The Writing and...
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Labor & Desire: Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America (includes information on Tillie Olsen in "The Great Mother Female Working-Class Subjectivity") » Read Now
by Paula Rabinowitz. 224 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Press had once again silenced Tillie Olsen; Yonnondio , so recently published...George Lipsitz, John Mowitt, Tillie Olsen, Marty Roth, Con Samaras, Leonard...action. 58 In...
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The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story (includes a section on Tillie Olsen) » Read Now
by Blanche H. Gelfant, Lawrence Graver. 880 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Fluid Boundaries: The Mother-Daughter Story, the Story-Reader Matrix, in Texas Studies in Literature and Language » Read Now
by Joan Lidoff. 23 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...The Other Side of Eden (the Costs of Empathy): Tillie Olsen In Tillie Olsen Tell Me a Riddle , 12 the background presence...friendly sympathy and suspicious antagonism...
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Notable Women in American History: A Guide to Recommended Biographies and Autobiographies » Read Now
by Lynda G. Adamson. 450 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This unique guide will enable students, librarians, teachers, and general readers to easily identify the best biographies and autobiographies of 500 of the most notable women in American history. Spanning from colonial America through 1998, the guide features entries on historical and contemporary...
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This unique guide will enable students, librarians, teachers, and general readers to easily identify the best biographies and autobiographies of 500 of the most notable women in American history. Spanning from colonial America through 1998, the guide features entries on historical and contemporary women who have achieved recognition in more than 100 fields of endeavor. It annotates approximately 1350 recommended books published since 1970 about these women. The compilation of works selected here is unavailable in any other reference.
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