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- catalog abstract ""Like the products of the "sea-change" 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. Book jacket."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b3267273.
- catalog created "c1991.".
- catalog date "1991".
- catalog date "c1991.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1991.".
- catalog description ""Like the products of the "sea-change" 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. Book jacket."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-244) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. Toward the modernist narrative: ch. 1. Modernism under erasure -- ch. 2. A different story : "The yellow wallpaper" and The turn of the screw -- pt. 2. Conrad and others: ch. 3. Darker and lower down : the eruption of modernism in "Melanctha" and The nigger of the "narcissus" -- ch. 4. T he vaginal passage : Heart of darkness and The voyage out -- ch. 5. The destructive element : The awakening and Lord Jim -- pt. 3. In the wake of early modernist narrative: ch. 6. (Anti- )canonical modernism -- ch. 7. After modernism.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 248 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0691014965 (PB) :".
- catalog identifier "0691068690 (CL) :".
- catalog issued "1991".
- catalog issued "c1991.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "English-speaking countries.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "823/.91091 20".
- catalog subject "American fiction History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Authorship Sex differences.".
- catalog subject "English fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) United States.".
- catalog subject "PR888.M63 D45 1991".
- catalog subject "Sex role in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Toward the modernist narrative: ch. 1. Modernism under erasure -- ch. 2. A different story : "The yellow wallpaper" and The turn of the screw -- pt. 2. Conrad and others: ch. 3. Darker and lower down : the eruption of modernism in "Melanctha" and The nigger of the "narcissus" -- ch. 4. T he vaginal passage : Heart of darkness and The voyage out -- ch. 5. The destructive element : The awakening and Lord Jim -- pt. 3. In the wake of early modernist narrative: ch. 6. (Anti- )canonical modernism -- ch. 7. After modernism.".
- catalog title "Rich and strange : gender, history, modernism / Marianne DeKoven.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".