'Modernist' Women Writers and Narrative Art

by Kathleen M. Wheeler

Book Overview

How does one capture the delightful irony of Edith Wharton's prose or the spare lyricism of Kate Chopin's? Kathleen Wheeler challenges the reader to experiment with a more imaginative method of literary criticism in order to comprehend more fully writers of the Modernist and late Realist period. In examining the creative works of seven women writers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Wheeler never lets the mystery and magic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814792766
• ISBN13: 9780814792766
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"