Rereading Modernism: Introduction
Author : Lisa Rado
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Feminist literary criticism
ISBN : 9780415526425
Author : Lisa Rado
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Feminist literary criticism
ISBN : 9780415526425
Author : Lisa Rado
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,45 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Feminist literary criticism
ISBN : 9780203119471
Author : Kevin J. H. Dettmar
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 13,29 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780472102907
Leading scholars speculate on the postmodern aspects of modernist literature
Author : Lisa Rado
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 26,33 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0415524121
Until about 1986, feminists generally considered modernism a reactionary, misogynist, and hegemonic mire not worth investigating. Since then enough studies of modernism have appeared that 17 feminist critics can now review and debate their treatment of the period. They evaluate the progress and goals of the new era of modernist scholarship. As the authors in this volume suggest, instead of condemning writers for not practicing or portraying an acceptable politics of gender, we ought instead to show how their assumptions about the nature of the sexes inform their texts, both in their creation and in their reception. This also allows examination of the complex and changing relationship between human subjectivity and aesthetics. This volume is a highly reflective dialogue, introspective and evaluative, at a moment of crisis within modernist studies and feminist studies. The analysis of critical work on early-twentieth-century literature not only helps reread and redefine a definition of modernism; it also intends to redirect and reintegrate feminist theory.
Author : Francis Barker
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Literature
ISBN : 9780719037450
Author : Richard C. Moreland
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 19,29 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Throughout his career Faulkner retold some of the same stories about some of the same events and characters, but retold them differently. For many years now these rewritings and revisions have been judged failures of craft. But Faulkner knew they were there and defended his discrepancies, associating them with learning about human character. Richard Moreland argues that these revisionary repetitions in fact constitute Faulkner's conscious critique of modernism. Moreland's readings of Absalom! Absalom!, The Hamlet, Go Down, Moses Requiem for a Nun and other works reveal Faulkner's explorations of both the motivations and consequences of modernism in the context of America's dominant discourses of class, race, gender and sexuality.
Author : Ming-Qian Ma
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 2008-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810124831
Grounded in a detailed and compelling account of the philosophy guiding such a project, Ma's book traces a continuity of thought and practice through the very different poetic work of objectivists Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, and John Cage and language poets Susan Howe, Lyn Hejinian, Bruce Andrews, and Charles Bernstein. His deft individual readings provide an opening into this notoriously difficult work, even as his larger critique reveals a new and clarifying perspective on American modernist and post-modernist avant-garde poetics. Ma shows how we cannot understand these poets according to the usual way of reading but must see how they deliberately use redundancy, unpredictability, and irrationality to undermine the meaning-oriented foundations of American modernism--and to force a new and different kind of reading."--Pub. desc.
Author : Louise Kane
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1000587886
The period of 1830–1950 was an age of unprecedented innovation. From new inventions and scientific discoveries to reconsiderations of religion, gender, and the human mind, the innovations of this era are recorded in a wide range of literary texts. Rather than separating these texts into Victorian or modernist camps, this collection argues for a new framework that reveals how the concept of innovation generated forms of literary newness that drew novelists, poets, and other creative figures working across this period into dialogic networks of experiment. The 14 chapters in this volume explore how inventions like the rotary print press or hot air balloon and emergent debates about science, trade, and colonialism evolved new forms and genres. Through their examinations of a wide range of texts and writers—from well-known novelists like Conrad, Dickens, Hardy, and Woolf, to less canonical figures like Charlotte Mew, Elías Mar, and Walter Frances White—the chapters in this collection re-read these texts as part of an age of innovation characterized not by division and divide, but by collaboration and community.
Author : Paul Lauter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1119685656
This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment, and more Demonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter Offers three distinct paradigms for thinking about American literature, focusing on: genealogies of American literary study; writers and issues; and contemporary theories and practices Enables students and researchers to generate richer, more varied and more comprehensive readings of American literature
Author : Leslie W. Lewis
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 45,12 MB
Release : 2003-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801869358
Analyzing such cultural practices as selling and shopping, political and social activism, urban field work and rural labor, radical discourses on feminine sexuality, and literary and artistic experimentation, this volume contributes to the rich vein of current feminist scholarship on the "gender of modernism" and challenges the assumption that modernism rose naturally or inevitably to the forefront of the cultural landscape at the turn of the twentieth century.".