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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... says , " Vague terms still signify . Such is the case with ' modernism ' : it is at once vague and unavoidable . ” 7 Most discussions of modernism acknowledge both the undefinability of the term and also the desirability of giving it a ...
... 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 canonization ...
... says , “ but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world ” ( 32–33 ) . More recently , Edward Said , while refraining from so vast a claim , links nineteenth - century ...
... say " other feminist arguments ” rather than “ other feminists ” because some feminists - including myself — make both ... says , “ literature by women , in its ethical and moral position , resembles the equally nonhegemonic modernism in ...
... say " even in America ” because we are used to acknowledging a tradition of leftist modernism in Europe . ) Modernism lived in New York before it moved to the Bible Belt . As we see in Leslie Fishbein's Rebels in Bohemia , for example ...
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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 |