Signets: Reading H.D.

by Susan S. Friedman, Rachel Blau Duplessis

Overview

Signets brings together the best essays of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). Susan Stanford Friedman and Rachel Blau DuPlessis have gathered the most influential and generative studies of H. D.'s work and complemented them with photobiographical, chronological, and bibliographical portraits unique to this volume.
The essays in Signets span H. D.'s career from the origins of Imagism to late modernism, from the early poems of Sea Garden to the novel HER and the epic poems Trilogy and Helen in Egypt. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Diana Collecott, Robert Duncan, Albert Gelpi, Eileen Gregory, Susan Gubar, Barbara Guest, Elizabeth A. Hirsch, Deborah Kelly Kloepfer, Cassandar Laity, Adalaide Morris, Alicia Ostriker, Cyrena N. Pondrom, Perdita Schaffner, and Louis H. Silverstein.
Signets is an essential resource for those interested in H. D., modernism, and feminist criticism and writing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299126841
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	03/15/1991
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	504
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Susan Stanford Friedman is professor of English and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her works include Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of H. D. and Penelope's Web: Gender, Modernity, H. D.'s Fiction. Rachel Blau DuPlessis is professor of English at Temple University. She is author of Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of the Twentieth-Century Women Writers and H. D.: The Career of that Struggle.

Table of Contents

	Preface	xi
Part I.	Lives
1.	A Sketch of H.D.: The Egyptian Cat	3
2.	A Photobiography of H.D.	7
3.	Selection from the Poem Biography	29
4.	Herself Delineated: Chronological Highlights of H.D.	32
5.	Dating H.D.'s Writing	46
6.	A Relay of Power and of Peace: H.D. and the Spirit of the Gift	52
Part II.	Images
7.	H.D. and the Origins of Imagism	85
8.	H.D.'s Romantic Landscapes: The Sexual Politics of the Garden	110
9.	Rose Cut in Rock: Sappho and H.D.'s Sea Garden	129
10.	Images at the Crossroads: H.D.'s "Scrapbook"	155
Part III.	Palimpsests
11.	Fishing the Murex Up: Sense and Resonance in H.D.'s Palimpsest	185
12.	"I had two loves separate": The Sexualities of H.D.'s HER	205
13.	Return of the Repressed in H.D.'s Madrigal Cycle	233
14.	Excerpts from "Language Acquisition"	253
Part IV.	Prophecies
15.	The Concept of Projection: H.D.'s Visionary Powers	273
16.	The Echoing Spell of H.D.'s Trilogy	297
17.	Re-membering the Mother: A Reading of H.D.'s Trilogy	318
18.	No Rule of Procedure: The Open Poetics of H.D.	336
19.	The H.D. Book: Part II, Chapter 10	352
Part V.	Rescriptings
20.	Creating a Women's Mythology: H.D.'s Helen in Egypt	373
21.	Romantic Thralldom in H.D.	406
22.	Imaginary Images: "H.D.," Modernism, and the Psychoanalysis of Seeing	430
	Selected Bibliography	455
	Notes on Contributors	477
	Index of Works	481
	Index	485

Editorial Reviews

A collection of essays on the works of Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), American author who made a distinct contribution to modern literature as a poet, novelist, essayist, translator, and memoirist. Long neglected, Doolittle's reputation began to grow with the advent of feminism. The collection includes a chronology, a photobiography, and a selection from the poem Biography by H.D. biographer Barbara Guest. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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