num_pages: 159
description: More than 40 examples of women's life writings - including memoirs, journals, letters and essays - are analyzed in this volume. Concentrating on the writer's use of metaphor and image in these narratives and the reader's empathic engagement, it explores examples from the work of familiar writers.
language: English
title: Crucial Conversations: Interpreting Contemporary American Literary Autobiographies by Women
titlecomplete: Crucial Conversations: Interpreting Contemporary American Literary Autobiographies by Women (Athene Series)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Teachers College Pr