About this title: 'Destroy', H.D. had pencilled across the title page of this autobiographical novel. Although the manuscript survived, it has remained unpublished since its completion in the 1920s. Regarded by many as one of the major poets of the modernist period, H.D. created in "Asphodel" a remarkable and readable experimental prose text, which in its manipulation of technique and voice can stand with the works of Joyce, Woolf, and Stein; in its frank exploration of lesbian desire, pregnancy and motherhood, artistic independence for women, and female experience during wartime, H.D.'s novel stands alone.A ...
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Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780822312420ISBN:0822312425
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Very minor extremity wear, light rubbing otherwise a fine copy. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 215 p. Audience: General/trade. "This novel...is a considerable lyric meditation on femaleness, sexual and maternal choices, and the meaning of war, history, and violence. " read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780822312420ISBN:0822312425
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Description: Edited with an Introduction and Biographical Notes by Robert Spoo. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1992. An Uncorrected proof in printed paper covers. A sticker spot on the front cover, a touch of cover soiling, otherwise near fine. Softcover. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780822312420ISBN:0822312425
Description: New. "This novel...is a considerable lyric meditation on femaleness, sexual and maternal choices, and the meanings of war, history, and violence. Its publication adds a striking text to the modernist canon. "--Rachel Blau DuPlessis, author of "H.D. read more
Description: Good. 0822312425 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Description: Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. Asphodel takes the reader into the bohemian drawing rooms of pre-World War I London and Paris and plays out the story of Hermione Gart, a young American newly arrived in Europe and testing for the first time the limits of her sexual and artistic identities. ISBN10: 0822312425. read more
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