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'Modernist' Women Writers and Narrative Art
  • Author : Kathleen Wheeler
  • Release Date : 01 September 1994
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 220
  • ISBN 13 : 9780814792766
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Book excerpt: 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.

Modernist Women Writers and Narrative Art

Modernist Women Writers and Narrative Art

Author : Kathleen Wheeler
Publisher : NYU Press
Genre : Literary Criticism
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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 ...

H D and the Public Sphere of Modernist Women Writers 1913 1946

H D and the Public Sphere of Modernist Women Writers 1913 1946

Author : Georgina Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Genre : Literary Criticism
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This 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 ...

Modernist Women Writers and Narrative Art

Modernist Women Writers and Narrative Art

Author : K. Wheeler
Publisher : Springer
Genre : Literary Criticism
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This book is an examination of the fiction of Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Jean Rhys, Stevie Smith, Katherine Mansfield and Jane Bowles, with a view to clarifying the narrative strategies these women adopt to establish, in varying degrees, a critique of realism and its hidden dualistic, patriarchal assumptions ...

Modernism

Modernism

Author : Peter Childs
Publisher : Routledge
Genre : Literary Criticism
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The modernist movement radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and its effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyzes what amounted to nothing less than a literary and cultural revolution. In this fully updated and revised second edition, charting the movement in its global and ...

The Cambridge Guide to Women s Writing in English

The Cambridge Guide to Women s Writing in English

Author : Lorna Sage,Germaine Greer,Elaine Showalter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Genre : Literary Criticism
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An alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present....

Fictions of Authority

Fictions of Authority

Author : Susan Sniader Lanser
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Writing from positions of cultural exclusion, women have faced constraints not only upon the "content" of fiction but upon the act of narration itself. Narrative voice thus becomes a matter not simply of technique but of social authority: how to speak publicly, to whom, and in whose name. Susan Sniader ...

Modernist Women Writers and War

Modernist Women Writers and War

Author : Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick
Publisher : LSU Press
Genre : Literary Criticism
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In Modernist Women Writers and War, Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick examines important avant-garde writings by three American women authors and shows that during World Wars I and II a new kind of war literature emerged -- one in which feminist investigation of war and trauma effectively counters the paradigmatic war experience long ...

English Novel Explication

English Novel Explication

Author : Christian J. W. Kloesel
Publisher : Archon
Genre : Fiction
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For over twenty-five years, the English Novel Explication series has been providing students and teachers of literature and reference librarians with a thorough, easy-to-use reference to interpretations of works by novelists from the United Kingdom.The explications cited in these volumes are interpretations of the significance and the meaning of ...

Choice

Choice

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Academic libraries
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