Author: Janet Lee JacobsenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Study Guide for Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen
Author: Janet Lee JacobsenA Study Guide for Tillie Olsen's "O Yes"
Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410354202
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A Study Guide for Tillie Olsen's "O Yes," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Tell Me a Riddle
Author: Tillie OlsenPublisher: Delta
ISBN: 9780440550105
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
This collection of four stories, "I Stand Here Ironing," "Hey Sailor, what Ship?," "O Yes," and "Tell me a Riddle," had become an American classic. Since the title novella won the O. Henry Award in 1961, the stories have been anthologized over a hundred times, made into three films, translated into thirteen languages, and - most important - once read, they abide in the hearts of their readers.
A Study Guide for Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing"
Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410348989
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
A Study Guide for Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Tillie Olsen
Author: Panthea ReidPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813548136
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
In Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles, Panthea Reid examines the complex life of this iconic feminist hero and twentieth-century literary giant. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Tillie Olsen spent her young adulthood there, in Kansas City, and in Faribault, Minnesota. She relocated to California in 1933 and lived most of her life in San Francisco. From 1962 on, she sojourned frequently in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Santa Cruz, and Soquel, California. She was a 1920s "hell-cat"; a 1930s revolutionary; an early 1940s crusader for equal pay for equal work and a war-relief patriot; an ex-GI's ideal wife in the later 1940s; a victim of FBI surveillance in the 1950s;a civil rights and antiwar advocate during the 1960s and 1970s; and a life-long orator for universal human rights. The enigma of Tillie Olsen is intertwined with that of the twentieth century. From the rebellions in Czarist Russia, through the terrors of the Depression and the hopes of the New Deal, to World War II, the Nuremberg Trials, and the United Nations' founding, to the cold war and House Un-American Activities Committee hearings, to later progressive and repressive movements, the story of Olsen's life brings remote events into focus. In her classic short story "I Stand Here Ironing" and her groundbreaking Tell Me a Riddle, Yonnondido, and Silences, Olsen scripted powerful, moving prose about ordinary people's lives, exposing the pervasive effects of sexism, racism, and classism and elevating motherhood and women's creativity into topics of study. Popularly referred to as "Saint Tillie," Olsen was hailed by many as the mother of modern feminism. Based on diaries, letters, manuscripts, private documents, resurrected public records, and countless interviews, Reid's artfully crafted biography untangles some of the puzzling knots of the last century's triumphs and failures and speaks truth to legend, correcting fabrications and myths about and also by Tillie Olsen.
Yonnondio
Author: Tillie OlsenPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803286214
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Yonnondio follows the heartbreaking path of the Holbrook family in the late 1920s and the Great Depression as they move from the coal mines of Wyoming to a tenant farm in western Nebraska, ending up finally on the kill floors of the slaughterhouses and in the wretched neighborhoods of the poor in Omaha, Nebraska. Mazie, the oldest daughter in the growing family of Jim and Anna Holbrook, tells the story of the family's desire for a better life – Anna's dream that her children be educated and Jim's wish for a life lived out in the open, away from the darkness and danger of the mines. At every turn in their journey, however, their dreams are frustrated, and the family is jeopardized by cruel and indifferent systems.
Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works
Author: Tillie OlsenPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803245777
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
A collection of works, both fictional and non-fictional, gathered together here for the first time --
A Study Guide for Anna Yezierska's "Bread Givers"
Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410341984
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A Study Guide for Anna Yezierska's "Bread Givers," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
The UnAmericans: Stories
Author: Molly AntopolPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393241130
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Traces the experiences of protagonists from a range of cultures, including a blacklisted Hollywood actor who struggles to connect with his son, and a dissenting gallery worker who begins smuggling and curating underground art.
Bad Behavior
Author: Mary GaitskillPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451687079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
National Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill’s debut collection, Bad Behavior—powerful stories about dislocation, longing, and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is searching for human connection. Now a classic, Bad Behavior made critical waves when it first published, heralding Gaitskill’s arrival on the literary scene and her establishment as one of the sharpest, erotically charged, and audaciously funny writing talents of contemporary literature. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called it “Pinteresque,” saying, “Ms. Gaitskill writes with such authority, such radar-perfect detail, that she is able to make even the most extreme situations seem real…her reportorial candor, uncompromised by sentimentality or voyeuristic charm…underscores the strength of her debut.”