Rich and Strange: Gender, History, ModernismPrinceton University Press, 2021/07/13 - 257 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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... CONRAD AND OTHERS CHAPTER 3 Darker and Lower Down : The Eruption of Modernism in " Melanctha " and The Nigger of the " Narcissus " 67 CHAPTER 4 The Vaginal Passage : Heart of Darkness and The Voyage Out 85 CHAPTER 5 The Destructive ...
... Conrad as central to the emergence of modernism , and simply in the way I see Conrad . I am also especially grateful to my Rutgers English Department colleagues Derek Attridge , Cora Kaplan , George Levine , and Barry Qualls , and ...
... Conrad , Chopin , and Woolf ( chapters 2–5 ) , then locating sous - rature in a range of canonical and noncanonical texts of the high modernist period ( chapter 6 ) , and finally positing the disintegration of the paradigm in early ...
... Conrad works I discuss here , all of which were written in the miraculous ( for Conrad ) last few years of the nineteenth century . Nonetheless , the Conrad works move ( progressively , literally from year to year ) much farther away ...
... Conrad might say , the riches yielded by close reading of literary form , and in providing us with a set of analytical tools for doing it , remains invaluable.13 Issues of definition and periodization are closely connected to issues of ...
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3 | |
CHAPTER 1 | 19 |
CHAPTER 2 | 38 |
CHAPTER 3 | 67 |
CHAPTER 4 | 85 |
CHAPTER 5 | 139 |
CHAPTER 6 | 179 |
CHAPTER 7 | 208 |
NOTES | 217 |
INDEX | 245 |