Out of Line

by Edmunds, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780804723701
• ISBN10: 0804723702
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-01-01
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

Drawing on archival materials, biography, war journalism, and theoretical texts, the author argues that the visionary politics of H.D.'s long poems cannot be reconciled with the feminist agendas currently attributed to them.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Introduction: "This unsatisfied duality": Reading H.D. for (with) Ambivalence	p. 1
"Stealing from 'muddies body'": War and Women's Aggression in Trilogy	p. 21
A Yield of Pleasure from Words	p. 21
A Bit on the Warpath: The Schmideberg Analysis	p. 25
Eating a Way Out of It: H.D.'s Hunger Stories	p. 33
Reparation; Or, the Lady Who Came Instead	p. 52
Femininity and Its Returns	p. 68
But Only If I Say Alice	p. 88
"I read the writing when he seized my throat": Hysteria, Montage, and Revolution in Helen in Egypt	p. 95
Whose Egypt?	p. 95
Phantasmagorias of Troy	p. 100
Out of the Womb of Fantasy	p. 110
Helen the Egyptian	p. 119
The Fault of Thetis	p. 130
Combing the Desolate Beach	p. 139
"That Memnon in the desert": Modernism and Decolonization in Hermetic Definition	p. 149
Rethinking the Mythical Method	p. 149
The Jungle of World Events	p. 154
Journeying to the Interior	p. 162
A Season of Long Darkness	p. 171
Notes	p. 179
Works Cited	p. 219
Index	p. 231
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