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Gendered Collision: Sentimentalism and Modernism in Dorothy Parker's Poetry and Fiction  
Author: Rhonda S. Pettit
ISBN: 083863818X
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Gendered Collision: Sentimentalism and Modernism in Dorothy Parker's Poetry and Fiction

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In A Gendered Collision, Rhonda Pettit challenges the assumption that Parker is a humorist or marginal modernist at best, a sentimentalist at worst. To do this, she examines Parker's career in light of feminist scholarship that has forced a reevaluation of the American canon in general, and of modernism in particular. As documented in her poetry and fiction, Parker's modernism moves beyond a narrow set of aesthetic principles; it carries the remnants from a collision of competing values, those of nineteenth-century sentimentalism, and twentieth-century decadence and modernism. Her works display the intense dynamic in which early twentieth-century literature and art were created.

     



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