Modernist short fiction by women
Subtitle: the liminal in Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair and Virginia Woolf
By: by Claire Drewery
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780754666462; 9781409428886
Subjects: Modernism (Literature); Women authors; English Short stories; English fiction; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Liminality in literature
Description: Exploring the short story's relationship to literary Modernism, Claire Drewery considers works by Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair, and Virginia Woolf. Drewery argues that the short story is preoccupied with transgressing boundaries, and thus is an ideal genre for examining the Modernist fascination with the liminal. Drewery shows how these writers contribute significantly to the Modernist aesthetic that interrogates identity, the construction of the self, and the relationship between the individual and society.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the liminal aesthetic in the modernist short story; title: The journey not the arrival: pilgrimage as a modernist liminal metaphor; title: Beyond the rite of passage: "impossible" mourning as an aesthetic of disunity; title: The death of the other: dying, mortality, and the textual body; title: The modernist uncanny tradition: mysticism, metaphysics and the psychological; title: The "inner life" as liminal discourse; title: Out of the ordinary: the revelatory moment as a liminal space.