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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... feminist theorists and critics of modernism . Without that nurturant and challenging matrix , the issues , commitments , and ideas that shape this book would have no useful life . I would particularly like to thank Margaret Homans and ...
... feminism and socialism . I will argue here that , on the contrary , modernist form evolved precisely as an adequate means of representing their terrifying appeal.3 In chapter 1 , I construct a formal paradigm I find characteristic of ...
... Feminist theorists and critics have recently extended the boundaries of the debate and shifted its terms . Some American feminist critics , con- cerned particularly with the historical positioning and literary contribu- tions of women ...
... feminist arguments " rather than " other feminists " because some feminists — in- cluding myself — make both kinds of arguments . ) In addition to French theoreticians , a number of American writers and critics argue ( again , as with ...
... feminist avant - garde interestingly converge . ) A related problem for antimodernists is reification or fetishism ... feminists , by the parallel with the cult of the phallus . The promodernist account of this phenomenon considers it an ...
目次
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 |