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Bower, Anne Lieberman was born on May 8, 1941 in New York City. Daughter of Frank J. Lieberman and Maxine (Scheuer) Donahue.
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Epistolary Responses: The Letter in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Criticism
( Epistolary Responses explores the transformative nature...)
Epistolary Responses explores the transformative nature of epistolary fiction and criticism in letter form from a largely feminist perspective. While most scholarly work to date has focused on 17th- and 18th-century manifestations of this genre, Bower's study concentrates on epistolary fiction by contemporary American writers published between 1912 and 1988. The novels discussed, all featuring women letter writers, include: Lee Smith's Fair and Tender Ladies, John Barth's LETTERS, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, John Updike's S., Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs, Upton Sinclair's Another Pamela, and Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters. Bower explores the influence letters have on the act of writing and writing as act, their encoded desire for reply, their incompleteness as units of narrative information, their play on ideas of absence and presence, their apparently personal and private nature, and their foregrounding of the writer's agency and authority, all of which make letters a most useful genre both for novelists and for scholars. Several of the book's "fiction" chapters include a letter from the author of the text (sometimes a critic) that complements and supplements Bower's analysis. The final part of the book explores how seven scholars--men and women--have applied letters to their own critical writing, finding that this formal move allows them to question issues of public and private discourse, the authority of signature, and the "feminine" location.
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Epistolary Responses: The Letter in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Criticism by Anne Bower (1997-01-30)
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Epistolary Responses: The Letter in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Criticism
( Epistolary Responses explores the transformative nature...)
Epistolary Responses explores the transformative nature of epistolary fiction and criticism in letter form from a largely feminist perspective. While most scholarly work to date has focused on 17th- and 18th-century manifestations of this genre, Bower's study concentrates on epistolary fiction by contemporary American writers published between 1912 and 1988. The novels discussed, all featuring women letter writers, include: Lee Smith's Fair and Tender Ladies, John Barth's LETTERS, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, John Updike's S., Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs, Upton Sinclair's Another Pamela, and Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters. Bower explores the influence letters have on the act of writing and writing as act, their encoded desire for reply, their incompleteness as units of narrative information, their play on ideas of absence and presence, their apparently personal and private nature, and their foregrounding of the writer's agency and authority, all of which make letters a most useful genre both for novelists and for scholars. Several of the book's "fiction" chapters include a letter from the author of the text (sometimes a critic) that complements and supplements Bower's analysis. The final part of the book explores how seven scholars--men and women--have applied letters to their own critical writing, finding that this formal move allows them to question issues of public and private discourse, the authority of signature, and the "feminine" location.
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Anne Lieberman Bower
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Anne Lieberman Bower, American English educator. Research grantee Ohio State University, 1991-1992, Schlesinger Library., Radcliffe College, 1992, Ohio State University, 1994, Ohio Humanities Council, 1996. Volunteer Turning Point, Marion, since 1994. Member Modern Language Association, Midwest Modern Language Association, National Council Teachers English.
Education
Bachelor of Science in English, Columbia University, 1963; Master of Arts in English, West Virginia University, 1985; Doctor of Philosophy in English, West Virginia University, 1990.
Career
Executive secretary, Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Institute, 1975-1977; project manager, Greene County Industrial Development, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, 1977-1979; project manager, Greene County Planning Center, Waynesburg, 1979-1981; executive director, Wheeling (West Virginia) Creek Watershed Commission, Wheeling and Waynesburg, 1981-1986; teaching assistant English, West Virginia University, Morgantown, 1983-1985, 87-90; instructor in English, Waynesburg College, 1985-1987; associate Professor of English, Ohio State University, Marion, since 1990. Speaker Ohio Humanities Council, Columbus, 1994-1996.
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Epistolary Responses: The Letter in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Criticism
( Epistolary Responses explores the transformative nature...)
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Epistolary Responses: The Letter in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Criticism
( Epistolary Responses explores the transformative nature...)
- Epistolary Responses: The Letter in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Criticism by Anne Bower (1997-01-30)
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Epistolary Responses: The Letter in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Criticism
Membership
Volunteer Turning Point, Marion, since 1994. Member Modern Language Association, Midwest Modern Language Association, National Council Teachers English.
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Married Roger L. Bower, December 1962 (divorced December 1987). Children, Rachael, Aviva, Issac.
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Research grantee Ohio State University, 1991-1992, Schlesinger Library., Radcliffe College, 1992, Ohio State University, 1994, Ohio Humanities Council, 1996.Research grantee Ohio State University, 1991-1992, Schlesinger Library., Radcliffe College, 1992, Ohio State University, 1994, Ohio Humanities Council, 1996.