Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers

Klappentext A thorough overview of the main genres, important issues, and key figures in women's modernism during the years 1890 1945. Zusammenfassung This Companion explains the crucial role played by women in modernism! covering not just the written arts! but also photography! film criticism! and dance. Leading scholars explain the key issues in women's modernism! providing a useful introduction for students and scholars. Inhaltsverzeichnis Modernist women's literature: an introduction Maren Linett; 1. Transforming the novel Bonnie Kime Scott; 2. The problem of form in modernist women's poetry Miranda Hickman; 3. Women's modernism and performance Penny Farfan; 4. Magazines, presses, and salons in women's modernism Jayne Marek; 5. Gender in women's modernism Patricia Juliana Smith; 6. Black women's modernist literature Thadious Davis; 7. Race and ethnicity in white women's modernist literature Jean Radford; 8. Geomodernism, postcoloniality, and women's writing Laura Doyle; 9. Women modernists and visual culture Maggie Humm; 10. Modernism and trauma Suzette Henke; 11. Political activism and women's modernism Sowon Park; 12. Religion and the occult in women's modernism Heather Ingman.

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• Authors: Maren Tova Linett, Maren Tova (Purdue University Linett
• Assisted by: Maren T. Linett (Editor), Maren Tova Linett (Editor), Maren Tova (Purdue University Linett (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.09.2010
• EAN: 9780521735704
• ISBN: 978-0-521-73570-4
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies