Modernist Women Writers And Narrative Art
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'Modernist' Women Writers and Narrative Art
This book is an examination of the narrative strategies and stylistic devices of modernist writers and of earlier writers normally associated with late realism. In the case of the latter, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin and Willa Cather are shown to have engaged in an ironic critique of realism, by exploring the inadequacies of this form to express human experience, and by revealing hidden, and contradictory, assumptions. By drawing upon insights from feminist theory, deconstruction and revisions of new historicism, and by restoring aspects of formalist analysis, Kathleen Wheeler traces the details of these various dialogues with the literary tradition etched into structural, stylistic and thematic elements of the novels and short stories discussed. These seven writers are not only discussed in detail, they are also related to a literary tradition of dozens of other women writers of the twentieth century, as Jean Rhys, Katherine Mansfield, Stevie Smith and Jane Bowles are shown to take the developments of the earlier three writers into full modernism.
H.D. and the Public Sphere of Modernist Women Writers, 1913-1946
Author: Georgina Taylor
language: en
Publisher: Oxford English Monographs
Release Date: 2001
'Especially appropriate for women's studies collections supporting work at the undergraduate level' -ChoiceThis book places H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) in the context of the wider network of women writers in which she participated. It examines the structures through which they exchanged ideas, such as the little magazines and anthologies, charting changes in focus by the network and the ways that new ideas emerged and were developed.
The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English
Author: Lorna Sage
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 1999-09-30
This Guide aims to consolidate and epitomise the re-reading of women's writing that has gone on in the last twenty-five years. This is an opportunity for stock-taking - a timely project, when so much writing has been rediscovered, reclaimed and republished. There are entries on writers, on individual texts, and on general terms, genres and movements, all printed in a single alphabetical sequence. The earliest written documents in medieval English (the visionary writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe) are covered in an historical - and geographical - sweep that takes us up to the present day. The book reflects the spread of literacy, the history of colonisation and the development of post-colonial cultures using and changing the English language. The entries are written by contributors from all the countries covered. The result is a work of reference with a unique feeling for the vitality, wealth and diversity of women's writing.