| Penelope's Web: Gender, Modernity, H. D.'s Fiction Contributor(s): Friedman, Susan Stanford (Author), Gelpi, Albert (Editor), Posnock, Ross (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521255791 ISBN-13: 9780521255790 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $108.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.52 |
| LCCN: 90033126 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Biotechnology |
| Physical Information: 1.25" H x 6" W x 9" (1.98 lbs) 498 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. It is 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. |