Objects of desire
Desire in literature
Classical influences
Literature, modern, history and criticism, 20th century
Love in literature
European literature
Sex in literature
Modernism (Literature)
Women in literature
Modern Literature
History and criticism
"Continuing her analysis of modernism and its relation to earlier periods of literature and thought, Beryl Schlossman explores secular modernist use of female characters - "madonnas of modernism" - as emblems of forbidden desire. Although these works appear to depict characters who assume convention…
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