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- catalog abstract ""An important moment in many novels and poems by American women writers occurs when a central character looks out a window or walks out the door of a house. These acts of departure serve to convey such values as the rejection of constraining social patterns, the search for individual fulfillment, and the entry into the political. Janis Stout examines such moments and related patterns of venture and travel in the fiction of five major American novelists of the 20th century: Mary Austin, Willa Cather, Anne Tyler, Toni Morrison, and Joan Didion. Moving between texts and between texts and contexts, Stout shows how women writers have envisioned the walls of both physical and social structures (including genres) as permeable boundaries, drawing on both a rhetoric of liberation and a rhetoric of domesticity to construct narrative arguments for women's right to move freely between the two."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10848745.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""An important moment in many novels and poems by American women writers occurs when a central character looks out a window or walks out the door of a house. These acts of departure serve to convey such values as the rejection of constraining social patterns, the search for individual fulfillment, and the entry into the political. Janis Stout examines such moments and related patterns of venture and travel in the fiction of five major American novelists of the 20th century: Mary Austin, Willa Cather, Anne Tyler, Toni Morrison, and Joan Didion. Moving between texts and between texts and contexts, Stout shows how women writers have envisioned the walls of both physical and social structures (including genres) as permeable boundaries, drawing on both a rhetoric of liberation and a rhetoric of domesticity to construct narrative arguments for women's right to move freely between the two."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Finding a way out : the imagination of departure -- Keeping one foot at home : Mary Austin and the "Circuit of the house" -- Looking out the window : Willa Cather and the Vesuvian impulse -- Escaping the house : Anne Tyler's fictions of (leaving) home -- Escaping history : Toni Morrison and the migration blues -- Moving into the political : Joan Didion and the imagination of engagement.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-301) and index.".
- catalog extent "xix, 312 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Through the window, out the door.".
- catalog identifier "081730908X (cloth)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Through the window, out the door.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press,".
- catalog relation "Through the window, out the door.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.509353 21".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American fiction Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Farewells in literature.".
- catalog subject "Home in literature.".
- catalog subject "Narration (Rhetoric)".
- catalog subject "PS374.W6 S78 1998".
- catalog subject "Separation (Psychology) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Travel in literature.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Women travelers in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Finding a way out : the imagination of departure -- Keeping one foot at home : Mary Austin and the "Circuit of the house" -- Looking out the window : Willa Cather and the Vesuvian impulse -- Escaping the house : Anne Tyler's fictions of (leaving) home -- Escaping history : Toni Morrison and the migration blues -- Moving into the political : Joan Didion and the imagination of engagement.".
- catalog title "Through the window, out the door : women's narratives of departure, from Austin and Cather to Tyler, Morrison, and Didion / Janis P. Stout.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".