Modernist short fiction by women : the liminal in Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair and Virginia Woolf / by Claire Drewery.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2011.Description: 150 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780754666462 (hardback)
- 0754666468 (hardback)
- 9781409428886 (ebook)
- 1409428885 (ebook)
- 9781138254213
- English fiction
- Short stories, English
- Liminality in literature
- Modernism (Literature)
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Richardson, Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller), 1873-1957 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Sinclair, May -- Criticism and interpretation
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation
- -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- -- History and criticism
- -- Great Britain
- 823.010 22 DRE
- 18.05
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Introduction: the liminal aesthetic in the modernist short story -- 1. The journey not the arrival: pilgrimage as a modernist liminal metaphor -- 2. Beyond the rite of passage: "impossible" mourning as an aesthetic of disunity -- 3. The death of the other: dying, mortality, and the textual body -- 4. The modernist uncanny tradition: mysticism, metaphysics and the psychological -- 5. The "inner life" as liminal discourse -- 6. Out of the ordinary: the revelatory moment as a liminal space.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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