The Unspeakable Mother: Forbidden Discourse in Jean Rhys and H.D. 9781501722035

Anyone interested in literary modernism will find The Unspeakable Mother fascinating reading, as will students and schol

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English Pages 224 [208] Year 2018

Table of contents :
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. The Blind Spot
2. Gazing for His Behalf
3. Orestes' Sisters
4. Between Corpse and Song
5. Words That Are Not Words
6. Fishing the Murex Up
7. Bitter Jewel
8. The Syntax of Stained Glass
9. She Herself Is the Riddling
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

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