
"Tell Me a Riddle"
Tillie Olsen
Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt(Editor)
Rutgers University Press
Published on 1. May 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
326 pages
978-0-8135-2137-4 (ISBN)
Description
"Tell Me a Riddle" renders an unforgettable portrait of a working class couple when the gender determined differences in their experiences of poverty and familial life give rise to bitter conflict after almost four decades of marriage. As she dies from cancer, Eva, the protagonist, recollects a revolutionary past that both critiques and offers hope for the present. Deborah Rosenfelt's introduction and the essays in this volume survey the critical reception of this highly acclaimed story, analyze its biographical and historical contexts, examine the text's language, structure, spiritual and moral significance, and illuminate Olsen's relationship to the American midwest, the American left, and the Jewish enlightenment tradition.
This casebook includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of Olsen's life, an authoritative text of "Tell Me a Riddle," relevant essays by Olsen, seven critical essays, and a bibliography.
The contributors are: Joanne Trautmann Banks, Constance Coiner, Rachel Blau Duplessis, Mara Faulkner, Elaine Orr, Linda Ray Pratt, and Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt.
This casebook includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of Olsen's life, an authoritative text of "Tell Me a Riddle," relevant essays by Olsen, seven critical essays, and a bibliography.
The contributors are: Joanne Trautmann Banks, Constance Coiner, Rachel Blau Duplessis, Mara Faulkner, Elaine Orr, Linda Ray Pratt, and Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt.
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Edition
None edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New Brunswick NJ
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
526 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8135-2137-4 (9780813521374)
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Person
Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt is Professor of Women's Studies and Director of the Curriculum Transformation Project at the University of Maryland-College Park. She is editor and co-editor of a number of books, including Feminist Criticism and Social Change and Teaching Women's Literature from a Regional Perspective.
Content
Introduction - Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt
Chronology
Tell Me a Riddle - Tillie Olsen
Background to the Story:
Silences in Literature - Tillie Olsen
Personal Statement - Tillie Olsen
Critical Essays:
The Circumstances of Silence: Literary Representation and Tillie Olsen's Omaha Past - Linda Ray Pratt
From the Thirties: Tillie Olsen and the Radical Tradition - Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt
A Feminist Spiritual Vision - Elaine Neil Orr
Death Labors - Joanne Trautmann Banks
Motherhood as a Source and Silencer of Creativity - Mara Faulkner
To "Bear My Mother's Name": Kunstlerromane by Women Writers - Rachel Blau Duplessis
"No One's Private Ground": A Bakhtinian Reading of Tillie Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle - Constance Coiner
Selected Bibliography
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Chronology
Tell Me a Riddle - Tillie Olsen
Background to the Story:
Silences in Literature - Tillie Olsen
Personal Statement - Tillie Olsen
Critical Essays:
The Circumstances of Silence: Literary Representation and Tillie Olsen's Omaha Past - Linda Ray Pratt
From the Thirties: Tillie Olsen and the Radical Tradition - Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt
A Feminist Spiritual Vision - Elaine Neil Orr
Death Labors - Joanne Trautmann Banks
Motherhood as a Source and Silencer of Creativity - Mara Faulkner
To "Bear My Mother's Name": Kunstlerromane by Women Writers - Rachel Blau Duplessis
"No One's Private Ground": A Bakhtinian Reading of Tillie Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle - Constance Coiner
Selected Bibliography
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