Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. Servicio de Publicaciones
Abstract
This paper is concerned with those "circumstances, inner or outer, which opose\ud
women's needs of creation", as Tillie Olsen put it. Focusing on poems by Marianne\ud
Moore, Elizabeth Bishop and Adrienne Rich, it analyses three factors which may account for female silence in literature: the burden of literary criticism, women writers' identification with dominant sexist values, and the need to alter a man-made language
