New Old Forms: Djuna Barnes’s and Virginia Woolf’s Return to the Archaic as Experimental Modernist Form

The following paper posits that High Modernism regards experimental literature purely in terms of form, not content; and how this regard is rooted in the gendering of literature i.e. masculine signaling “experimental” and feminine signaling “traditional.” As a result, the modernist canon is rooted i...

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Main Author: Elaine Hsieh Chou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAES 2018-04-01
Series:Angles
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/angles/1008