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Returning the gift : modernism and the thought of exchange / Rebecca Colesworthy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Colesworthy, Rebecca, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gifts.
- Exchange.
- Gifts in literature.
- Mauss, Marcel, 1872-1950. Essai sur le done.
- Mauss, Marcel.
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.
- Woolf, Virginia.
- Rhys, Jean--Criticism and interpretation.
- Rhys, Jean.
- Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946--Criticism and interpretation.
- Stein, Gertrude.
- H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961--Criticism and interpretation.
- H. D.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- 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.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-108435-2
- 0-19-182389-9
- 0-19-108434-4
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