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40%OFFLaura Cowan - Rebecca West´s Subversive Use of Hybrid Genres: 1911-41 - 9781350028418 - V9781350028418
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Rebecca West´s Subversive Use of Hybrid Genres: 1911-41

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Bringing new insights from genre theory to bear on the work of the journalist and novelist Rebecca West, this study explores how West's use of and combinations of multiple genres (often in single works) was informed and furthered by her subversive feminist goals. Rebecca West's Subversive Use of Hybrid Genres analyzes West's sense of genres as dynamic and strategic processes with transgressive political ends rather than as fixed and reified taxonomies, a radical new approach at the time that is now mirrored in much contemporary theory. Surveying her oeuvre from this point of view, the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781350028418
SKU
V9781350028418
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Laura Cowan
Laura Cowan is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Maine, USA. She is editor of the Centennial Essay Collection, T. S. Eliot Man and Poet (1988) and a previous Managing Editor and Co-Editor of the National Poetry Foundation journal Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry.

Reviews for Rebecca West´s Subversive Use of Hybrid Genres: 1911-41
This is a masterful study. It is impeccably researched, compellingly written, and persuasively argued [...] Cowan has written a work of commanding scholarship.
Bernard Schweizer, Professor of English, Long Island University, USA.

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