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Did James Joyce, that icon of modernity, spearhead the dismantling of the Cartesian subject? Or was he a supreme example of a modern man forever divided and never fully known…
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Susan Stanford Friedman
Friedman’s is a splendid and rewarding achievement. –The Year’s Work in English Studies
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Drawing on modernist novels, film, fiction, poetry, and mass media, this work features narratives of such writers and filmmakers as Gish Jen, Julie Dash, June Jordon, James Joyce, Neil Jordon…
Drawing on a vast archive, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing multiple aesthetic innovations across millennia. Rejecting the modernist concepts of marginality, othering…
Penelope’s Web, published in 1991, was the first book to examine fully the brilliantly innovative prose writing of Hilda Doolittle. H. D.‘s reputation as a major modernist poet has grown…
A landmark book about Sigmund Freud, H.D., modernism, gender, and sexuality.
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Returning to revolution’s original meaning of ‘cycle’, Contemporary Revolutions explores how 21st-century writers, artists, and performers re-engage the arts of the past to reimagine a present and future encompassing revolutionary…
Ultimately, Comparison argues for the importance of greater self-reflexivity about the politics and methods of comparison in teaching and in research.
A collection of influential and generative studies of the work of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), complemented with photobiographical, chronological and bibliographical portraits. The essays span H.D.‘s career from its origins in…
