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Thinking Fascism
Erin G. Carlston
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Description for Thinking Fascism
Hardback. This book analyzes three works by sexually marginal women sometimes grouped as the "Sapphic Modernists"--Djuna Barnes's Nightwood (1936), Marguerite Yourcenar's Denier du reve (1934), and Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas (1938)--that engage, directly or indirectly, with fascist politics and ideology. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 23. .
Thinking Fascism analyzes three works by women writers—Djuna Barnes's Nightwood (1936), Marguerite Yourcenar's Denier du rêve (1934), and Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas (1938)—that engage, directly or indirectly, with fascist politics and ideology. Through these analyses, the author explores the conjunction between fascism and other forms of modernity, and refines the discussion about the relationship between women intellectuals and the various aesthetic and ideological practices collected under the names of modernism and facism.Until recently, much theoretical work on fascism has represented fascist thought as radically different from and inimical to non-fascist thought, and feminist criticism has further assumed that women intellectuals—especially ... Read more
Thinking Fascism analyzes three works by women writers—Djuna Barnes's Nightwood (1936), Marguerite Yourcenar's Denier du rêve (1934), and Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas (1938)—that engage, directly or indirectly, with fascist politics and ideology. Through these analyses, the author explores the conjunction between fascism and other forms of modernity, and refines the discussion about the relationship between women intellectuals and the various aesthetic and ideological practices collected under the names of modernism and facism.Until recently, much theoretical work on fascism has represented fascist thought as radically different from and inimical to non-fascist thought, and feminist criticism has further assumed that women intellectuals—especially ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804730884
SKU
V9780804730884
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99-15
Reviews for Thinking Fascism
"This work makes an important contribution to studies of the 'gender of modernism' and the relation between modernism and fascism, as well as of the individual authors examined. Carlston's ability to present a sweeping panorama of the preoccupations, theories, fears, and phantasms of both the find de siecle and the fascist period is remarkable, and she is and astute analyst ... Read more