Modernist Poetics of Ageing
Book • 2025
This book investigates aging and creativity in the later works of Mina Loy, H.D.
, and Djuna Barnes.
It challenges conventional views of modernism by examining these authors' experiences from 1940 to 1982.
The study combines literary analysis with insights from aging studies and cultural criticism.
It focuses on both the lived realities and thematic representations of aging.
This interdisciplinary approach reveals how modernist late writing captures and transforms the realities of growing older through avant-garde techniques.
The book ultimately argues that the later works of these modernist women writers are vital, contemporary experiments that complicate traditional views of the 'new'.
, and Djuna Barnes.
It challenges conventional views of modernism by examining these authors' experiences from 1940 to 1982.
The study combines literary analysis with insights from aging studies and cultural criticism.
It focuses on both the lived realities and thematic representations of aging.
This interdisciplinary approach reveals how modernist late writing captures and transforms the realities of growing older through avant-garde techniques.
The book ultimately argues that the later works of these modernist women writers are vital, contemporary experiments that complicate traditional views of the 'new'.
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Presented by Julyan Oldham as Jade Elizabeth French 's first book, exploring aging, care, and intergenerationality in literature.
Jade Elizabeth French, "Modernist Poetics of Ageing: The Late Lives and Late Styles of Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and H.D." (Oxford UP, 2025)
