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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Joanna Russ

Titel

Isolation

Ist Teil von

• How to Suppress Women's Writing, 2018, p.74

Ort / Verlag

University of Texas Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• WHEN A WORK or an author (of the “wrong” sort) does make it into the literary canon of the Great, the Permanent, or (at least) the Serious, there remain two ways of distorting the author’s achievement. By careful selection it is possible to create what I would like to call the myth of the isolated achievement, that is, the impression that although X appears in this history of literature or that curriculum or that anthology, it is only because of one book or a handful of (usually the same) poems, and therefore X’s other work is taken to be nonexistent