Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism

by Marianne DeKoven

Book Overview

Like the products of the "sea-change" described in Ariel's song in The Tempest, modernist writing is "rich and strange." Its greatness lies in its density and its dislocations, which have until now been viewed as a repudiation of and an alternative to the cultural implications of turn-of-the-century political radicalism. Marianne DeKoven argues powerfully to the contrary, maintaining that modernist form evolved precisely as a means of representing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691014965
• ISBN13: 9780691014968
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"