H. D. and Sapphic Modernism |
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Author:
| Collecott, Diana |
ISBN: | 978-0-521-10183-7 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2008 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $75.95 |
Book Description:
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The American poet H. D. (1886-1961) is increasingly being recognised as a key figure in the shaping of Anglo-American modernism, and this study attempts to emphasise her position, against the well-established claims of writers like T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. The study is grounded in questions of sexuality, gender and the nature of subjectivity and H. D.'s interest in Hellenism: the development of a homoerotic strand within her distinctively modernist poetics comes together in...
More DescriptionThe American poet H. D. (1886-1961) is increasingly being recognised as a key figure in the shaping of Anglo-American modernism, and this study attempts to emphasise her position, against the well-established claims of writers like T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. The study is grounded in questions of sexuality, gender and the nature of subjectivity and H. D.'s interest in Hellenism: the development of a homoerotic strand within her distinctively modernist poetics comes together in Collecott's central concept of 'sapphic modernism'.