Posting Signs on the Bog: Fixing and Unfixing H.D. Imagiste

Stott, Rebecca (1997) Posting Signs on the Bog: Fixing and Unfixing H.D. Imagiste. The Journal of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Identity, 2. pp. 27-46.

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Abstract

This article aims to reassess the modernist poet H.D.'s early poetry and to challenge certain critical readings of the early poetry in relation to H.D.'s expression of self. It argues that H.D.'s Sea Garden should not be dismissed as a “false start,” as a place where H.D. was trapped in a restrictive imagist aesthetic, but that the dramatic lyric as used in this collection of poetry enabled her to explore her bisexual self in multiple and multiplying (not split) selves, as both in a state of flux and as enduring through time. It examines H.D.'s work alongside other writers such as Tennyson and Woolf, drawing out common metaphorical structures and patterns and suggests that Woolf and H.D. in particular, were producing literary forms and representations which provide a radical challenge to processes of categorization—a challenge to the notion of category itself.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature and Creative Writing (former - to 2011) Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Creative Writing Research Group
Depositing User:	Katherine Humphries
Date Deposited:	09 Jan 2012 14:07
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2025 05:02
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/35966
DOI:	10.1023/A:1026337115512

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