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A Curious Peril
Lara Vetter
其他書名
H.D.’s Late Modernist Prose
出版
University Press of Florida
, 2019-09-09
主題
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century
Literary Criticism / Women Authors
ISBN
0813065224
9780813065229
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4YHSEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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A Curious Peril
examines the prose penned by modernist writer H.D. in the aftermath of World War II, a little-known body of work that has been neglected by scholars, and argues that the trauma H.D. experienced in London during the war profoundly changed her writing. Lara Vetter reveals a shift in these writings from classical "escapist" settings to politically aware explorations of gender, spirituality, nation, and imperialism. 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. She directed her well-known interest in mysticism and otherworldly themes toward the material world of empire-building and perpetual war. Vetter contends that H.D.'s postwar work is essential to understanding the writer's entire career, marking her entrance into late modernism and even foretelling crucial aspects of postmodernism.