Rebecca West's Subversive Use of Hybrid Genres: 1911-41

by Laura Cowan and Laura Cowan

Book Overview

Bringing new insights from genre theory to bear on the work of the journalist and novelist Rebecca West, this study explores how West's use of and combinations of multiple genres (often in single works) was informed and furthered by her subversive feminist goals.

Rebecca West's Subversive Use of Hybrid Genres analyzes West's sense of genres as dynamic and strategic processes with transgressive political ends rather than as fixed and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 135002841X
• ISBN13: 9781350028418
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"