Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine

Klappentext A study of the the role of the 'feminine' in Dos Passos's fiction. Zusammenfassung Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine is an original contribution to traditional Dos Passos scholarship! which tends to focus on the author's political agenda. Casey takes a cultural studies approach that situates both the author and his finest fiction in relation to theories of gender in the 1920s and 1930s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Critical Legacies: Political, Literary, Personal; 2. Framing the Issues: The Feminine in the Early Fiction; 3. Manhattan transfer and 'The Center of Things'; 4. Ideology, the feminine, and USA.

Product details

• Authors: Janet Galligani Casey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521111935
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11193-5
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries