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Author:
Colesworthy, Rebecca, author.
Title:
Returning the gift : modernism and the thought of exchange / Rebecca Colesworthy.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
vi, 271 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Mauss, Marcel,--1872-1950.--Essai sur le done.
Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.
Rhys, Jean--Criticism and interpretation.
Stein, Gertrude,--1874-1946--Criticism and interpretation.
H. D.--(Hilda Doolittle),--1886-1961--Criticism and interpretation.
H. D.--(Hilda Doolittle),--1886-1961.
Rhys, Jean.
Stein, Gertrude,--1874-1946.
Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941.
Gifts--Social aspects.
Gifts in literature.
Gifts in literature.
Gifts--Social aspects.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-262) and index.
Summary:
What is a gift? What do gifts mean and do? Drawing on Marcel Mauss's 1925 essay, this volume studies novels, autobiographical texts, aesthetic treatises, and political writings by Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, and H.D to explore the idea of the gift in Modernist literature.
ISBN:
0198778589
9780198778585
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1022076454
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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