Ornament and silence : essays on women's lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer / Kennedy Fraser.

By:

Fraser, Kennedy

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, 1998.Edition: 1st Vintage Books edDescription: xv, 247 p ; 21 cmISBN:

0375701125

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

809/.89287 21

LOC classification:

PN471 .F69 1998

Contents:

Ornament and silence : Virginia Woolf -- Going on : Nina Berberova -- Warmed through and through : Edith Wharton -- My sister, myself -- A normal man : Henri Matisse and his women -- Love, longing, and letters : Louise Colet -- Traps and damask roses -- Fritillaries and hairy violets : Miriam Rotschild -- Stones of his house : Paul Scott -- Valentina -- The poet of everyday life : Johannes Vermeer -- Meat -- Demented pilgrimage : Germaine Greer -- There at the New Yorker : the novel I never wrote for William Shawn.

Summary: Collection of fourteen essays most of which were previously published in the "New Yorker" and "Vogue" exploring the female voice and its presence in literature and art by examining the experiences of such women as Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and Germaine Greer.

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Lise Kütüphanesi / High School Library	Öğretmen Kaynakları / Teacher Resources (HS)	P 809.89 FRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		T 18132

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Collection of fourteen essays most of which were previously published in the "New Yorker" and "Vogue" exploring the female voice and its presence in literature and art by examining the experiences of such women as Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and Germaine Greer.

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