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

Cowan, Laura
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781350028418
Publisert
2017-03-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
299 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208

Forfatter
Cowan, Laura

Om bidragsyterne

Laura Cowan is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Maine, USA. She is editor of the Centennial Essay Collection, T. S. Eliot Man and Poet (1988) and a previous Managing Editor and Co-Editor of the National Poetry Foundation journal Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry.

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

Cowan, Laura
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk
Cowan, Laura
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk
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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 reified taxonomies, a radical new approach at the time that is now mirrored in much contemporary theory. Surveying her oeuvre from this point of view, the book goes on to examine systematically West's writing from 1911-1941, including her early journalism and criticism, such novels as The Return of the Soldier and her controversial multi-genre epic Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.
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Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Chapter 1: The Wide Interstices between West’s Genres Chapter 2: ‘The Wild Eye of the Artist’: Early journalism, Henry James and The Return of the Soldier Chapter 3: ‘The Miraculous Beauty of the Common Lot’: New Woman Meets Female Gothic in The Judge Chapter 4: ‘A Mystical Confusion of Substance’: Satire and Fantasy Fuse in Rebecca West’s Harriet Hume Chapter 5: Art’s ‘Blazing Jewel’ in The Strange Necessity Chapter 6: ‘The tragic spirit come back into life’: West’s works of the 1930s: A Letter to a Grandfather, St Augustine, The Thinking Reed, The Harsh Voice Chapter 7: ‘To Cast Away All Acquisitions and Certainties’: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon Combines Travel Genres and the Epic Notes References Index
Les mer
This is a masterful study. It is impeccably researched, compellingly written, and persuasively argued […] Cowan has written a work of commanding scholarship.
Drawing on contemporary genre theory, this book explores the ways in which Rebecca West's mixing of genres was informed by her subversive feminist political agenda.
A sustained critical exploration of Rebecca West's use and mixing of genres

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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 reified taxonomies, a radical new approach at the time that is now mirrored in much contemporary theory. Surveying her oeuvre from this point of view, the book goes on to examine systematically West's writing from 1911-1941, including her early journalism and criticism, such novels as The Return of the Soldier and her controversial multi-genre epic Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.
Les mer
Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Chapter 1: The Wide Interstices between West’s Genres Chapter 2: ‘The Wild Eye of the Artist’: Early journalism, Henry James and The Return of the Soldier Chapter 3: ‘The Miraculous Beauty of the Common Lot’: New Woman Meets Female Gothic in The Judge Chapter 4: ‘A Mystical Confusion of Substance’: Satire and Fantasy Fuse in Rebecca West’s Harriet Hume Chapter 5: Art’s ‘Blazing Jewel’ in The Strange Necessity Chapter 6: ‘The tragic spirit come back into life’: West’s works of the 1930s: A Letter to a Grandfather, St Augustine, The Thinking Reed, The Harsh Voice Chapter 7: ‘To Cast Away All Acquisitions and Certainties’: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon Combines Travel Genres and the Epic Notes References Index
Les mer
This is a masterful study. It is impeccably researched, compellingly written, and persuasively argued […] Cowan has written a work of commanding scholarship.
Drawing on contemporary genre theory, this book explores the ways in which Rebecca West's mixing of genres was informed by her subversive feminist political agenda.
A sustained critical exploration of Rebecca West's use and mixing of genres

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350028418
Publisert
2017-03-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
299 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208

Forfatter
Cowan, Laura

Om bidragsyterne

Laura Cowan is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Maine, USA. She is editor of the Centennial Essay Collection, T. S. Eliot Man and Poet (1988) and a previous Managing Editor and Co-Editor of the National Poetry Foundation journal Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry.

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