Rich and Strange: Gender, History, ModernismPrinceton University Press, 1991/10/27 - 248 ページ Like the products of the "sea-change" described in Ariel's song in The Tempest, modernist writing is "rich and strange." Its greatness lies in its density and its dislocations, which have until now been viewed as a repudiation of and an alternative to the cultural implications of turn-of-the-century political radicalism. Marianne DeKoven argues powerfully to the contrary, maintaining that modernist form evolved precisely as a means of representing the terrifying appeal of movements such as socialism and feminism. Organized around pairs and groups of female-and male-signed texts, the book reveals the gender-inflected ambivalence of modernist writers. Male modernists, desiring utter change, nevertheless feared the loss of hegemony it might entail, while female modernists feared punishment for desiring such change. With water imagery as a focus throughout, DeKoven provides extensive new readings of canonical modernist texts and of works in the feminist and African-American canons not previously considered modernist. Building on insights of Luce Irigaray, Klaus Theweleit, and Jacques Derrida, she finds in modernism a paradigm of unresolved contradiction that enacts in the realm of form an alternative to patriarchal gender relations. |
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... Turn of the Screw 38 PART II : CONRAD AND OTHERS CHAPTER 3 Darker and Lower Down : The Eruption of Modernism in " Melanctha " and The Nigger of the " Narcissus " 67 CHAPTER 4 The Vaginal Passage : Heart of Darkness and The Voyage Out 85 ...
... turn - of - the - century and prewar fiction by James , Gilman , Stein , Con- rad , Chopin , and Woolf ( chapters 2-5 ) , then locating sous - rature in a range of canonical and noncanonical texts of the high modernist period ( chapter ...
... Turn of the Screw was contemporaneous with the Conrad works I discuss here , all of which were written in the miraculous ( for Conrad ) last few years of the nine- teenth century . Nonetheless , the Conrad works move ( progressively ...
... turn its back on New Criti- cal modernism . I would account for my use of the term " form " both by pointing to Marxist and poststructuralist " formalism " and also by saying that , entirely apart from ideology or theoretical ...
... Turn of the Screw and , differently , in his Major Phase novels . In The Portrait of a Lady , the distinction still ... turns the novel to the traditional containing form of the tragic trajec- tory — Grace Paley's Faith calls it " the ...
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Modernism under Erasure | 19 |
A Different Story The Yellow Wallpaper and The Turn of the Screw | 38 |
CONRAD AND OTHERS | 65 |
Darker and Lower Down The Eruption of Modernism in Melanctha and The Nigger of the Narcissus | 67 |
The Vaginal Passage Heart of Darkness and The Voyage Out | 85 |
The Destructive Element The Awakening and Lord Jim | 139 |