Open Form and the Feminine Imagination: The Politics of Reading in Twentieth Century Innovative Writing (Postmodernpositions)

Martin begins with predictions that western civilization underwent a paradigm shift in the 20th century. Older forms of rationality are patriarchal; artistic forms are closed conventions and fulfill norms of logic and causality. The emerging forms of thought are feminine, open, and incompleterequiring nurture and creative participation of the reader for meaning to exist.