Laura Cowan

Rebecca West's Subversive Use of Hybrid Genres (eBook, PDF)

1911-41

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441197467
• Artikelnr.: 42766288

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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