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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... Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture at Rutgers for the 1986–87 Fellowship 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 the ...
... 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 require some comment in a book that seems to turn its back on New Critical 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 egomania in a wide range of ...
... critical thought that is necessary to repudiate the oppressive 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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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 |