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- catalog abstract "Voice Lessons is a book about writing from a woman with a remarkable story to tell and an utterly distinctive voice in which to tell it. Nancy Mairs's essays have been called "triumphs ... of will, style, candor, thought and even form" (Los Angeles Times). She has won acclaim for her autobiographical writing on themes from living with depression to renewing a marriage, from sex to religion. In Voice Lessons, Mairs's subjects are literary, but as always her approach is personal, revealing, and inspiring. Mairs first shares her sharply drawn story on how "finding a voice" as an essayist transformed her life when she was a graduate student, wife, and mother in her late thirties. In a tribute to the liberating power of literature and feminist ideas, she shows how the words of other writers made possible a new career, a new life in difficult times. Voice Lessons goes on to explore other women's writing and to outline a singular kind of literary life. Always grounding her writing in personal experience, always making ideas concrete, Mairs gives us essays on writing and the body, the challenges of autobiography, the revelatory power of Virginia Woolf and Alice Walker, the literature of personal disaster, and the art of dealing with rejection. Articulate, witty, incisive, and inspirational, Voice Lessons is a book for writers and aspiring writers, and for everyone who loves women's writing.".
- catalog contributor b6021023.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-166).".
- catalog description "Prelude: Loving the Other -- Voice Lessons -- Body at Work -- Writing (Into) Life: Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing -- Essaying the Feminine: From Montaigne to Kristeva -- In Search of "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens": Alice Walker -- Reading Houses, Writing Lives: The French Connection -- The Literature of Personal Disaster -- The Writer's Thin Skin and Faint Heart.".
- catalog description "Voice Lessons is a book about writing from a woman with a remarkable story to tell and an utterly distinctive voice in which to tell it. Nancy Mairs's essays have been called "triumphs ... of will, style, candor, thought and even form" (Los Angeles Times). She has won acclaim for her autobiographical writing on themes from living with depression to renewing a marriage, from sex to religion. In Voice Lessons, Mairs's subjects are literary, but as always her approach is personal, revealing, and inspiring. Mairs first shares her sharply drawn story on how "finding a voice" as an essayist transformed her life when she was a graduate student, wife, and mother in her late thirties. In a tribute to the liberating power of literature and feminist ideas, she shows how the words of other writers made possible a new career, a new life in difficult times. Voice Lessons goes on to explore other women's writing and to outline a singular kind of literary life. Always grounding her writing in personal experience, always making ideas concrete, Mairs gives us essays on writing and the body, the challenges of autobiography, the revelatory power of Virginia Woolf and Alice Walker, the literature of personal disaster, and the art of dealing with rejection. Articulate, witty, incisive, and inspirational, Voice Lessons is a book for writers and aspiring writers, and for everyone who loves women's writing.".
- catalog extent "x, 166 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Voice lessons.".
- catalog identifier "0807060062".
- catalog isFormatOf "Voice lessons.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Beacon Press,".
- catalog relation "Voice lessons.".
- catalog subject "818/.5409 B 20".
- catalog subject "Authors, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Authorship Sex differences.".
- catalog subject "Mairs, Nancy, 1943-".
- catalog subject "PS3563.A386 Z478 1994".
- catalog subject "Women and literature.".
- catalog subject "Women authors, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prelude: Loving the Other -- Voice Lessons -- Body at Work -- Writing (Into) Life: Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing -- Essaying the Feminine: From Montaigne to Kristeva -- In Search of "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens": Alice Walker -- Reading Houses, Writing Lives: The French Connection -- The Literature of Personal Disaster -- The Writer's Thin Skin and Faint Heart.".
- catalog title "Voice lessons : on becoming a (woman) writer / Nancy Mairs.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".