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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... Rivers . " Copyright 1926 by Alfred A. Knopf Inc. and renewed 1954 by Langston Hughes . Reprinted from Selected Poems of Langston Hughes , by permission of the publisher . D. H. Lawrence , " After Dark " and " To Let Go or to Hold On ...
... river's current repre- sents Maggie's illicit desire for Stephen , just as the flood represents Isa- bel's for Goodwood . But Eliot divides gratification very clearly from the danger of moral turpitude , and morality triumphs . There is ...
... river mask , like idealizing art , the horrible truth realism must reveal : Perhaps the old mirror was never yet made by human hands , which , if all the images it has in its time reflected could pass across its surface again , would ...
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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 |