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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... writing is “ rich and strange " : its greatness lies in its density and its estranging dislocations . The sea - change of the early twentieth - century , as represented in modernism , is , like the phrase " rich and strange " itself ...
... writers ' irresolvable ambivalence toward the possibility of radical social change promised / threatened by what Perry Anderson calls the “ revolutionary horizon ” of the twentieth century . I argue that this ambivalence was differently ...
... writing Three Lives . The Turn of the Screw was contemporaneous with the 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 ...
... writers , focus on resuscitating undervalued work by women modernists . " 7 Asserting the stature of these works is an end in itself ; it also contributes to establishing a tradition ( or countertradition ) of female modernism , defined ...
... writers . In The War of the Words , Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar argue that male modernists , threatened by the ... writing for masculinity from late - nineteenth - century " effeminacy . " Other feminist arguments , however , agree ...
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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 |