A Curious Peril : H.D.'s Late Modernist Prose /

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This book argues that the trauma the modernist writer H.D. endured during World War II birthed a body of writing strikingly different from that of her earlier career. Vetter's study focuses on the author's post-war prose which has received little critical attention relative to her Imagist...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vetter, Lara Elizabeth, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
H. D. > (Hilda Doolittle), > 1886-1961.
H. D. > (Hilda Doolittle), > 1886-1961 > Criticism and interpretation.
Poets, American.
Modernism (Literature)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Poetes americains > 20e siecle > Biographies.
Poets, American > 20th century > Biography.
Modernism (Literature) > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • H.D.'s post-World War II writings: a chronology
  • Introduction
  • De-formations: trauma, genre, and the sword went out to sea
  • Autobiography and ghost story
  • Mysticism and time travel
  • Märchen and historical fiction
  • Critique: gendered narratives of nation and imperialism
  • By Avon River, arranged marriage, and Shakespeare's empire
  • Disappearing bodies in white rose and the red
  • Interlude
  • The mystery
  • Re-formations: postwar ethics and identity
  • Facing the past, becoming l'Autre
  • The invisible other: the psychoanalyst as spy.

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