£69.17

Modernist Poetics of Ageing: The Late Lives and Late Styles of Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and H.D.

Literary Fiction

Price data last checked 90 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

Price History & Forecast

Last 1 days • 1 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Not enough data points to display chart (need at least 2 points)

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 1 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £69 (1 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £69 - £69

Price levels: 1 different prices over 1 days

Description

What happens when the 'modern woman' ages? Modernist Poetics of Ageing answers this question by being the first book-length study of three late modernist women's writers. Drawing on their place within wider modernist networks, this monograph is primarily framed around work by Mina Loy, H.D. and Djuna Barnes, who are often thought of as the quintessentially youthful 'modern woman' of the 1920s. Taking a literary, ageing studies and cultural criticism approach, this monograph focuses on lived experience, as well as thematic representations of ageing in their work, to examine how each author grew older in the years 1940-1982. By surveying literary texts, visual art, photography, life writing and archival material, this book explores the intersection of old age as lived and as well as written to argue that modernist late writing embodies the realities of ageing and transforms them through avant-garde aesthetics. As an interdisciplinary study, this work pairs ageing studies and modernist studies to innovatively consider experimental works written about and in later life. The book suggests that a focus on older age complicates the very avant-garde or modernist aesthetics that each author was interested in: what happens when the scene of the 'new' is populated by older people? How does an embodied experience of illness inform an aesthetics of 'late style'? After fulfilling their role as the youthful 'modern woman' of the 1920s, how did each artist continue to create rich, avant-garde works that go well beyond the paradigms of 'late modernism'? Modernist Poetics of Ageing argues that the late lives of some of modernism's most prominent and networked women writers are overlooked - despite being rich, vital, and contemporary in their continuing commitment to modernist experiment. By reframing these older modernist women writers as engaged in continuing, creative experiments, Modernist Poetics of Ageing reveals that the 'new' does not always have to be 'young'.

Product Specifications

Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 0198919972
Category: Books > Subjects > Literature & Fiction > Literary Fiction
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 06 February 2025
Listed Since: 16 July 2024

Barcode

No barcode data available

Modernist Poetics of Ageing: The Late Lives and Late Styles of Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and H.D.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Reading Mina Loy's Autobiographies: Myth of the Modern Woman (Historicizing Modernism)

Djuna Barnes and Affective Modernism

Poetry, Publishing, and Visual Culture from Late Modernism to the Twenty-first Century: Fugitive Pieces

Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives (Life Writing)

Aging Identity: A Dialogue with Postmodernism

Women’s Lives in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature

Women’s Lives in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature

Historical Modernisms: Time, History and Modernist Aesthetics (Historicizing Modernism)

Poetic Language of Ageing, A (Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life)

Women and Aging: An International, Intersectional Power Perspective

Routledge Poetry and Autobiography (Life Writing) Collection

Women Writers and Experimental Narratives: Early Modern to Contemporary

Improper Modernism: Djuna Barnes's Bewildering Corpus

Women Growing Older: Psychological Perspectives

Women, Modernism and British Poetry, 1910–1939: Resisting Femininity

Still Going Strong: Memoirs, Stories, and Poems About Great Older Women

Djuna Barnes (Writers and their Work)

Women and Aging: Celebrating Ourselves (Haworth Women's Studies)

Women, Modernism and British Poetry, 1910â€“1939: Resisting Femininity

Historicizing Modernists: Approaches to ‘Archivalism’

Finding Meaning in Later Life: Gathering and Harvesting the Fruits of Women’s Experience

Marianne Moore and the Cultures of Modernity

Growing Old with the Welfare State: Eight British Lives

Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians (Interdisciplinary Research in Gender)