id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt ws859c71494 Abigail Burns Storied Women 1904 .txt text/plain 136 4 38 At the heart of the novella is a desire and failure to write new philosophies of love—new poetry—free from unnecessary gendered binaries and their patriarchal cultural contexts. Modeled after work by Roland Barthes, Maggie Nelson, and Marguerite Duras, among others, Storied Women pushes against the limits of auto-fiction, combining critical and theoretical writing with fictional narrative. cache/ws859c71494.txt txt/ws859c71494.txt