A Curious Peril: H.D.’s Late Modernist Prose
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (835 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813054567 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Lara Vetter, associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, is the editor of H.D.’s By Avon River and the author of Modernist Writings and Religio-scientific Discourse: H.D., Loy, and Toomer.
Lara Vetter reveals a shift in these writings from classical “escapist” settings to politically aware explorations of gender, spirituality, nation, and imperialism. “Demonstrating how literary aspects of H.D.’s late prose contribute to politically-attuned cultural work, Vetter astutely counters longstanding claims about H.D.’s ‘escapism.’”Miranda Hickman, coeditor of Rereading the New Criticism “An important, meticulously researched treatment of H.D.’s post–WWII writing that helps us understand her multiple genre-bending and time warping moves.”Madelyn Detloff, author of The Value of Virginia Woolf A Curious Peril examines the prose penned by modernist writer H.D. She directed her well-known interest in mysticism and otherworldly themes toward the material world of empire-building and perpetual war. Impelled by the shocking political crises of the early 1940s, and increasingly sensitive to imperialist logics, H.D. began to write about the history of modern Europe using innovative forms and genres. Vetter contends that H.D.’s postwar work is es
. Lara Vetter, associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, is the editor of H.D.’s By Avon River and the author of Modernist Writings and Religio-scientific Discourse: H.D., Loy, and Toomer