A gendered collision
Subtitle: sentimentalism and modernism in Dorothy Parker's poetry and fiction
By: Rhonda S. Pettit.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univeristy Press; Associated University Presses; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Madison [N.J.]; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Modernism (Literature) -- United States.; Sentimentalism in literature.
Description: "In A Gendered Collision, Rhonda Pettit challenges the assumption that Parker is a humorist or marginal modernist at best, a sentimentalist at worst. To do this, she examines Parker's career in light of feminist scholarship that has forced a reevaluation of the American canon in general, and of modernism in particular.

As documented in her poetry and fiction, Parker's modernism moves beyond a narrow set of aesthetic principles; it carries the remnants from a collision of competing values, those of nineteenth-century sentimentalism, and twentieth-century decadence and modernism. Her works display the intense dynamic in which early twentieth-century literature and art were created."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-233) and index.