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(More customer reviews)Okay, so my graduate research was on H.D. - which means I've read just about everything ever written on her and her work. Friedman is the top H.D. expert, and this is her best work so far. The book is mostly about H.D.'s fiction, but Friedman also looks at her poetry, letters and critical writing as part of an in-depth analysis. This is a critic who is so at home with her theoretical models that she can avoid getting tangled up in them. Her argument - which has to do with H.D.'s production and re-production of writing identities through her fiction - is clearly expressed and strongly supported. If you are going to study H.D., you need to read this book.
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Penelope's Web should appeal to a wide spectrum of readers interested in twentieth-century modernism, women's writing, feminist criticism, post-structuralist theory, psychoanalysis, autobiography, and women's studies. It is the first book to examine fully the brilliantly innovative prose writings of H.D., the pen-name for Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), who has been known primarily as a poet. Her prose, more personal, experimental, and postmodern than her poetry, raises central questions about the relation of women writers to language, desire, and history. She suppressed in her lifetime many of these texts because of their daring exploration of her bisexuality and their radical critique of the social order. H.D.'s prose writings contribute importantly to the many histories and theories of modernism that are redrawing boundaries to include the achievement of women writers.
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