Penelope's Web
Gender, Modernity, H. D.'s Fiction
Part of Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
- Author: Susan Stanford Friedman
- Date Published: January 2008
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521050012
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Penelope's Web should appeal to a wide spectrum of readers interested in twentieth-century modernism, women's writing, feminist criticism, post-structuralist theory, psychoanalysis, autobiography, and women's studies. Published in 1991, it was the first book to examine fully the brilliantly innovative prose writings of H. D., the pen-name for Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961), who has been known primarily as a poet. Her prose, more personal, experimental, and postmodern than her poetry, raises central questions about the relation of women writers to language, desire and history. She suppressed in her lifetime many of these texts because of their daring exploration of her bisexuality and their radical critique of the social order. H. D.'s prose writings contribute importantly to the many histories and theories of modernism that are redrawing boundaries to include the achievement of women writers.
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- Date Published: January 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521050012
- length: 500 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 28 mm
- weight: 0.73kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the double weave of H. D.'s prose modernism
1. 'H. D. - Who is she?': discourses of self-creation
2. Origins: rescriptions of desire in HER
3. Madrigals: love, war and the the return of the repressed
4. Borderlines: diaspora in the history novels and the Dijon series
5. Rebirths: re/membering the father and mother
Coda: bridging the double discourse in H. D.' Oeuvre
Chronology: dating H. D.'s writing
Notes
Works cited
Index.
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