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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... Literary Tradition , " A Gertrude Stein Companion : Content with the Example , ed . Bruce Kellner ( New York : Greenwood Press , 1988 ) . Portions of Chapter 6 appeared in different form in " Breaking the Rigid Form of the Noun : Stein ...
... literary modernism and political radicalism . Modernist formal practice has seemed to define itself as a repudiation of , and an alternative to , the cultural implications of late nineteenth- and early twentieth - century feminism and ...
... literary merit . It is , however , meant to indicate a sense of gradual , uneven movement from one literary - historical moment to an- other , where some works are " more modernist " than others . These judg- ments are intended as ...
... literary works as modernist . In Marxism and Modernism , 12 Eugene Lunn lists four of the most important of those prac- tices : ( 1 ) aesthetic self - consciousness ; ( 2 ) simultaneity , juxtaposition , or " montage " ( I would add the ...
... literary contribu- tions of women writers , focus on resuscitating undervalued work by women modernists.17 Asserting the stature of these works is an end in itself ; it also contributes to establishing a tradition ( or countertradition ) ...
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 |