Difference in View: Women and ModernismGabriele Griffin This collection of essays challenges conceptions of "high" modernism, its preoccupation with style at the expense of issues such as race, class and gender, and its exclusive focus both on predominately male writers, poetry and prose fiction by highlighting the diversity of cultural production in the modernist period. This book focusses specifically on women's cultural production, covering a wide range of arts and genres including chapters on painting, theatre, and magazines. The book investigates how women usually constructed as "others", themselves construct others in their work in a period prominently concerned with the construction of self as an issue. This diversity offers a new format of reading modernism in a cross-disciplinary context. |
Contents
Europe in the Novels of Jessie Redmon Fauset and Nella Larsen | 15 |
The Other Other or More of the Same? Womens Representations of Homosexual Men | 27 |
Twinned Pairs of Eternal Opposites The Opposing Selves of Vita SackvilleWest | 37 |
The Museum of Their Encounter The Collision of Past and Present in the Fiction of Djuna Barnes | 48 |
Casehistories versus the Undeliberate Dream Men and Women Writing the Self in the 1930s | 56 |
Our War is with Words Dora Marsden and The Egoist | 75 |
Becoming as Being Leonora Carringtons Writings and Paintings 193740 | 92 |
Susan Hiller Automatic Writing and Images of Self | 108 |
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Page 3 - The existing monuments form an ideal order among themselves, which is modified by the introduction of the new (the really new) work of art among them. The existing order is complete before the new work arrives; for order to persist after the supervention of novelty, the whole existing order must be, if ever so slightly, altered...
Page 10 - The book has somehow to be adapted to the body, and at a venture one would say that women's books should be shorter, more concentrated, than those of men, and framed so that they do not need long hours of steady and uninterrupted work. For interruptions there will always be.