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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... Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture at Rutgers for the 1986-87 Fellow- ship during which my initial work on modernism began to take on its current shape . This book emerged from my participation in the group intellectual life of ...
... Critical Essays on American Modernism , ed . Michael J. Hoffman and Patrick Murphy ( Boston : G. K. Hall , 1991 ) . Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint : H.D. , " Sea Rose , " in Collected Poems ...
... critical history , might also re- quire some comment in a book that seems to 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 ...
... critical distance from the illusionist - realist forms that make us think the social and cultural status quo is natural and inevitable . Antimodernists find solipsism , excessive subjectivity , and artistic ego- mania in a wide range of ...
... critical thought that is necessary to repudiate the oppres- sive status quo , and to forge an appropriate literary language that would no longer be corrupted by service to the " master narratives . " 21 As is probably ( though not ...
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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 |