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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... clear the way in which the paradigm of sous- rature was a function of the modernist writers ' irresolvable ambivalence toward the possibility of radical social change promised / threatened by what Perry Anderson calls the ...
... of Modernism explains why critics have found it so hard a movement to find a clear place or date for , " Bradbury and McFarlane , in their influen- tial book Modernism , go on to establish roughly 1890 INTRODUCTION 5.
... clear to me , how- ever , that promodernism as well as antimodernism necessarily reduce the complex political - cultural - historical provenance of modernist formal in- novation . The preceding summary was , in fact , an attempt to ...
... clearly from the danger of moral turpitude , and morality triumphs . There is none of the oscillating , moment - to - moment ambiguity we saw in the James passage . Being borne along by the tide is purely wonderful at first , as they ...
Gender, History, Modernism Marianne DeKoven. clearly separated from the positive , triumphant language , with the ... clear separation of clusters of positive and negative connotation and decidability between them . In Dickens's Our ...
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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 |