The Gift By H D : The Complete Text

Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:The Gift By H D : The Complete TextISBN13:9780813068350ISBN10:0813068355Author:Augustine, Jane (Editor)Description:It Is A Special Joy To Have The Complete Text Of The Gift, A Stunning Work In The H D Canon, A Work Of Import For Studies In Autobiography And The Essay, For Understanding The Spiritual Crisis Of Modernism, And As A Climactic Work In The Career Of An Extraordinary 20Th-Century Woman Writer --Rachel Blau Duplessis, Temple Universityall Students And Teachers Of American Literature Will Value This Book For The Light It Throws On The Poet Who Is, I Believe, The Most Important Female Poet In America Since Emily Dickinson, And Indeed The Most Important Female Poet Writing In The English Language During The 20Th Century --Louis L Martz, Yale Universityin This Complete, Unabridged Edition Of H D 'S Visionary Memoir, The Gift, Jane Augustine Makes Available For The First Time The Text As H D Wrote It And Intended It To Be Read, Including H D 'S Coda To The Book, Her Notes, Never Before Published In Its Entirety Written In London During The Blitz Of World War Ii, The Gift Re-Creates The Peaceful Childhood Of Hilda Doolittle In Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Where She Was Born In 1886 As An Antidote To War's Destructiveness, H D Invokes The Mystical Moravian Heritage Of Her Mother's Family To Convey An Ideal World Peace And Salvation That Would Come Through The Spiritual Power Of Women--A Power That Also Endowed Her With The Gift Of Her Own Art Although H D 'S Androgynous Signature First Associated Her With Early 20Th-Century Imagist Poetics, The Gift Exemplifies Her Continuing Innovations In Prose She Uses The Child-Voice, Flashback, And Stream-Of-Consciousness Techniques Reminiscent Of Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, And Dorothy Richardson, But Expands The Genre Of Memoir Through Free-Associative Meditations On Myth And Her Lengthy Essayistic Notes On Moravian History, Emphasizing The Pioneer Missionaries' Rapport With Native Americans The Gift Is Key To Intertextual Studies Of H D 'S Wartime Oeuvre And To An Understanding Of The Religious And Gender Concerns Pervading Her Later Work, Especially The Women-Centered Poems Trilogy And Helen In Egypt Augustine's Introduction And Annotations, Based On Extensive Research In Moravian Archives, Provide A Biographical And Historical Context To Make This The Definitive Edition Of The Gift, Essential To Students And Scholars Of H D , Modernism, And Feminist Literature Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:University Press of FloridaPublication Date:2021-10-05Weight:0 lbsDimensions:Number of Pages:336Language:English

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