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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... means of his erudite ( book - learned and image - controlling ) magic Syco- rax's lesser , earthbound sorcery . He ... mean deep , pervasive change , encompass- ing all levels of life as it is lived . The advent of twentieth - century ...
... means of representing their terrifying appeal.3 In chapter 1 , I construct a formal paradigm I find characteristic of modernism : an unre- solved contradiction or unsynthesized dialectic ( " rich and strange " ; Julia Kristeva calls it ...
... means of instituting 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 ego ...
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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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