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It is thus worth asking just what texts?what linguistic artifacts?constitute the frame on which the work known as "The Yellow Wall-Paper" has been hanging for nearly three decades. Such questions did not seem particularly urgent to feminist critics in the early 1970s. At a time when mostly male scholars were toiling away on "authoritative" editions of mostly male authors with funding from organizations such as the National Endowment for the Humanities, that women's works be represented by "good" texts may have seemed less crucial than that they be represented and read at all...
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It is thus worth asking just what texts?what linguistic artifacts?constitute the frame on which the work known as "The Yellow Wall-Paper" has been hanging for nearly three decades. Such questions did not seem particularly urgent to feminist critics in the early 1970s. At a time when mostly male scholars were toiling away on "authoritative" editions of mostly male authors with funding from organizations such as the National Endowment for the Humanities, that women's works be represented by "good" texts may have seemed less crucial than that they be represented and read at all...
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