Rich and Strange: Gender, History, ModernismPrinceton University Press, 27 հոկ, 1991 թ. - 248 էջ 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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... find it impossible to categorize or assign adjectives to the myriad forms of essential life support provided by my husband , Julien Hennefeld ; my children , Daniel and Maggie Hennefeld ; and by Barbara Cohn Schla- chet . Julien also ...
... find characteristic of modernism : an unre- solved contradiction or unsynthesized dialectic ( " rich and strange " ; Julia Kristeva calls it an " impossible dialectic " ) that enacts in the realm of form an alternative to culture's ...
... oblique nature of Modernism explains why critics have found it so hard a movement to find a clear place or date for , " Bradbury and McFarlane , in their influen- tial book Modernism , go on to establish roughly 1890 INTRODUCTION 5.
... find solipsism , excessive subjectivity , and artistic ego- mania in a wide range of modernist forms ( expressionism , roman fleuve , surrealism , antirealist narrative and nontraditional poetic forms in gen- eral ) , seeing them as a ...
... finds powerful evidence that , in texts such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman's " The Yellow Wallpaper , " 1891 , Kate Chopin's The Awakening , 1899 , and Gertrude Stein's Three Lives , 1903-06 , previ- ously buried texts that have become ...
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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 |
IN THE WAKE OF EARLY MODERNIST NARRATIVE | 177 |
AntiCanonical Modernism | 179 |
After Modernism | 208 |
NOTES | 217 |
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