Female Sexuality in Modernist Fiction
Female Sexuality in Modernist Fiction

Author: Elaine Wood

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-04

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1000190803

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Female Sexuality in Modernist Fiction: Literary Techniques for Making Women Artists provides a chronological investigation of the innovative writing styles of canonical modernist writers to reveal a shift in gendered representations of sexual subjectivity. Positioned at the nexus of studies on the body and sexuality in modernist literature, this book addresses the complex ways that constructions of female sexuality are understood culturally, politically, and epistemologically. Using close reading strategies to identify how modernist authors challenge representations of female positionality as passive, case studies consider how canonical modernist authors – Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett – found new ways to represent women as embodied, sexual, desired, and desiring subjects through prose, poetry, and drama. This book addresses Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography (1928), Yeats’ The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (1939), Beckett’s Not I (1972), and other dramatic works. By rendering sexuality more obviously as a component of female character, these works of modernist literature shape our understanding of the artistic body as a structure for thinking about "woman" as a linguistic construct and material reality. This study is will be of great interest to scholars in English literature, women and gender studies, and sexuality studies.

Sexuality in Modernist Literature. D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" as an Approach to Emancipation and Gender Equality
Sexuality in Modernist Literature. D.H. Lawrence's

Author: Alice Sturm

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2018-06-18

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 3668729344

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Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Paderborn, language: English, abstract: In dieser Seminararbeit wird die Darstellung von Sexualität in der Literatur des englischen Modernismus näher betrachtet. Anhand des Romans 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' von D.H. Lawrence wird die Rolle der Frau in der Ehe und die Bedeutung ihrer Sexualität analysiert und in Bezug zu damaligen Normen und Wertevorstellungen gesetzt.

The Relationship Between Writing, Gender Relations and Sexuality in Modernist Fiction with Reference to "Mrs. Dalloway" and "Ulysses"
The Relationship Between Writing, Gender Relations and Sexuality in Modernist Fiction with Reference to

Author: Ulrike Häßler

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2007-10

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 363882683X

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Essay from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: B, Staffordshire University, 19 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The modernist writers were deeply influenced by the changing gender relations and the attitude towards sexuality within society, which is reflected in their literary works. The patriarchal society was more and more questioned, particularly by an awakening feminist movement, and sexuality became a present issue of discourse after new theories had been introduced. Virginia Woolf's Mrs.Dalloway and James Joyce's Ulysses are discussed as two examples of a modernist novel in order to explain in which ways modernist writers dealt with the aspects of gender and sexuality.

Libidinal Currents
Libidinal Currents

Author: Joseph Allen Boone

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1998-02-28

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 9780226064666

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From Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf to William Faulkner and Doris Lessing, modern fiction surges with libidinal currents. The most powerful of these fictions are not merely about sex; rather, they attempt to incorporate the workings of eros into their narrative forms. In doing so, Joseph Allen Boone argues, these modern fictions of sexuality create a politics and poetics of the perverse with the power to transform how we think about and read modernism. Challenging overarching theories of the novel by carefully mapping the historical contexts that have influenced modern experimental narratives, Boone constructs a model for interpreting sexuality that reaches from Freud's theory of the libidinal instincts to Foucault's theory of sexual discourse. The most ambitious study yet written on the links between literary modernity and the psychology of sex, Boone's Libidinal Currents will be a landmark book in the study of modernist fiction, gay studies/queer theory, feminist criticism, and studies in sexuality and gender.

Modernism, Sex, and Gender
Modernism, Sex, and Gender

Author: Celia Marshik

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-10-04

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 135002046X

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Modernism, Sex, and Gender is an up-to-date and in-depth review of how theories of gender and sexuality have shaped the way modernism has been read and interpreted from its inception to the present day. The volume explores four key aspects of modernist literature and criticism that have contributed to the new modernist studies: women's contributions to modernism; masculinities; sexuality; and the intersection of gender and sexuality with politics and law. Including brief case studies of such writers as May Sinclair and Radclyffe Hall, this book is a valuable guide for those looking to understand the history of critical thought on gender and sexuality in modernist studies today.

Intimate Ties
Intimate Ties

Author: Robert Musil

Publisher: Archipelago

Published: 2019-05-28

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1939810248

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A master of high modernist literature explores female sexuality and desire through the eyes of two women—one, married and unfaithful; the other, caught in a love triangle—in these two erotic novellas First published in 1911, Intimate Ties is Robert Musil’s second book, consisting of two novellas, “The Culmination of Love” and “The Temptation of Silent Veronica”. Each revolves around a troubled woman in the throes of her sexual and romantic woes, as their memories of the past return to influence their present desires. Musil tracks the psyche of his protagonists in a blurring of impressions that is reflected in his experimental prose. Intimate Ties offers the reader an early glimpse of the high modernist style Musil would perfect in his magnum opus The Man Without Qualities.

The Governesses
The Governesses

Author: Anne Serre

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2018-10-30

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 0811228088

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The sensational US debut of a major French writer—an intense, delicious meringue of a novella In a large country house shut off from the world by a gated garden, three young governesses responsible for the education of a group of little boys are preparing a party. The governesses, however, seem to spend more time running around in a state of frenzied desire than attending to the children’s education. One of their main activities is lying in wait for any passing stranger, and then throwing themselves on him like drunken Maenads. The rest of the time they drift about in a kind of sated, melancholy calm, spied upon by an old man in the house opposite, who watches their goings-on through a telescope. As they hang paper lanterns and prepare for the ball in their own honor, and in honor of the little boys rolling hoops on the lawn, much is mysterious: one reviewer wrote of the book’s “deceptively simple words and phrasing, the transparency of which works like a mirror reflecting back on the reader.” Written with the elegance of old French fables, the dark sensuality of Djuna Barnes and the subtle comedy of Robert Walser, this semi-deranged erotic fairy tale introduces American readers to the marvelous Anne Serre.

The New Woman
The New Woman

Author: Emma Heaney

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 9780810135536

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Emma Heaney's The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory traces the evolution of the "trans feminine" as an allegorical figure from its origins in the late nineteenth century to contemporary Queer Theory.

Sexuality and Contemporary Literature
Sexuality and Contemporary Literature

Author: Joel Gwynne

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9781604978247

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A review of recent scholarship investigating the cultural representation of sexuality, work that pays specific attention to the imaginary and the expressive, reveals that much critical attention has tended to focus on film, theatre, and the visual arts rather than literature. While this is not surprising given the dominance of visual culture in today's media-saturated societies around the world, literature and written discourse will continue to play a central role in determining how we understand and define our (sexual) selves as long as there are literate populations. This collection seeks to close a gap in current critical scholarship by attending precisely to the nexus between sexuality and literature of the contemporary moment. It contends that reading, not just viewing, informs how we think of ourselves as sexual beings, and that literature and the written realm of the imagination remains an important outlet for the expression and exploration of sexual desire, sexual acts, sexual being, sexual identity and sexual interaction.

The Novel and the Obscene
The Novel and the Obscene

Author: Florence Dore

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9780804751872

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The Novel and the Obscene challenges our vision of early twentieth-century America as sexually progressive by identifying a resonant silence at the heart of the modernist American novel—a narrative mode that renders censorship symbolic at the very moment of its legal demise.