Gender and Modernism: Critical Concepts 4 Vols: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

ISBN-13: 9780415380928 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 1544 str.

Kime Scott, Bonnie

Opis

This collection takes articles from late 20th and early 21st century literary criticism and places them alongside earlier key pieces written during the modernist period. The text has been edited in light of the thesis that modernism has been marked, consciously or unconsciously, by gender.

Spis treści

Volume I: Modernists Write Gender.  Issues of Formal Authority.  Gender Politics.  Racial Expressions and Transgressions.  On the Colonial Horizon.  Other Arts.  Volume II: Critical Gender Studies of Modernism: The Makings of Modernism.  Reading Gender into Modernist Canons.  Issues of Sexual Textuality.  Modernism, Gender and War. Productive and Contested Spaces.  Volume III: Critical Gender Studies of Modernism: Diversity of Focus. Gender, Genre, and Discourse.  Traversing High/Low Modernism and Other Arts. Decolonizing Modernism.  Volume IV: Critical Gender Studies of Modernism: Diversity of Identities.  Masculine and Feminine Performances.  Intersections of Gender and Race. Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Intersections.

O autorze

Bonnie Kime Scott is Professor of Women's Studies at San Diego State University, where she teaches courses concerning women writers, feminist theory, gender, and representation. Her writing over the last decade has been devoted to the feminist re-vision of literary modernism and she is currently working on a sequel to The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology, which originally came out in 1990.