A gendered collision

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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."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Criticism and interpretation,  History,  Modernism (Literature),  Sentimentalism in literature,  Women and literature,  American poetry, women authors,  American poetry, history and criticism, 20th century,  American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century

People: Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

Places: United States

Times: 20th century