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Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen ; edited and with an introduction by Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt.

Olsen, Tillie. (Added Author). Rosenfelt, Deborah Silverton. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 081352136X (cloth)
  • ISBN: 0813521378 (pbk.) :
  • ISBN: 0385290101 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: viii, 310 p. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1995.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-307).
Subject: Olsen, Tillie. Tell me a riddle.
Cancer > Patients > United States > Fiction.
Married people > United States > Fiction.
Working class > United States > Fiction.
Older women > United States > Fiction.

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"Tell Me a Riddle" : Tillie Olsen
"Tell Me a Riddle" : Tillie Olsen
by Rosenfelt, Deborah (Editor)
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Table of Contents

"Tell Me a Riddle" : Tillie Olsen

SectionSection DescriptionPage Number
Introduction   Deborah Silverton Rosenfeltp. 3
    Chronologyp. 27
Tell Me a Riddle   Tillie Olsenp. 33
Background to the Story
    Silences in Literature   Tillie Olsenp. 87
    Personal Statement   Tillie Olsenp. 105
Critical Essays
    The Circumstances of Silence: Literary Representation and Tillie Olsen's Omaha Past   Linda Ray Prattp. 113
    From the Thirties: Tillie Olsen and the Radical Tradition   Deborah Sil Verton Rosenfeltp. 133
    A Feminist Spiritual Vision   Elaine Neil Orrp. 177
    Death Labors   Joanne Trautmann Banksp. 199
    Motherhood as Source and Silencer of Creativity   Mara Faulknerp. 213
    To "Bear My Mother's Name": Kunstlerromane by Women Writers   Rachel Blau Duplessisp. 243
    "No One's Private Ground": A Bakhtinian Reading of Tillie Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle   Constance Coinerp. 271
    Selected Bibliographyp. 305
    Permissionsp. 309

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