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UNINA9910785989703321 |
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Autore |
Ramanathan Geetha |
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Titolo |
Locating gender in modernism : the outsider female / / Geetha Ramanathan |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-29127-X |
1-283-64251-4 |
0-203-11449-3 |
1-136-29128-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (211 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; ; 25 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Modernism (Literature) |
Women in literature |
Gender identity in literature |
Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-199) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The female outsider in the modern -- Modernisms and the woman in history -- Figuring the female in modern realisms -- Magical women in the modern -- Modern women in feminist realisms. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of modernist studies and argues that despite a range of interventions which suggest that philosophical and material articulations with the third world shaped modernism, an emphasis on modernist ""universals"" persists. Ramanathan argues that women and third-world authors have reshaped received notions of the modern and revised orthodox ideas on the |
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