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Djuna Barnes' Consuming Fictions

Author : Diane Warren
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351159666
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Djuna Barnes' Consuming Fictions written by Diane Warren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) was a pioneering female journalist, experimental novelist, playwright, and poet whose influence on literary modernism was profound and whose writings anticipated many of the preoccupations of poststructuralist and feminist thought. In her new book,the author argues that Barnes' writings made significant contributions to gender and aesthetic debates in their immediate early twentieth-century context, and that they continue to contribute to present-day debates on identity. In particular, Warren traces the works' close engagement with the effects of cultural boundaries on the individual, showing how the journalism, Ryder, Ladies Almanack, and the early chapters of Nightwood energetically and playfully subvert such boundaries. In this reading, Nightwood is contextualised as a pivotal text which poses questions about the limits of subversion, thereby positioning The Antiphon (1958) as an analysis of why such boundaries are sometimes necessary. Djuna Barnes' Consuming Fictions shows that from the irreverent and carnivalesque iconoclasm of Barnes' early works, to the bleak assessment that conflict lies at the root of culture, seen from the close of Nightwood, Barnes' oeuvre offers a profound analysis of the relationship between culture, the individual and textual expression.

Djuna Barnes and Theology

Author : Zhao Ng
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350256048
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Djuna Barnes and Theology written by Zhao Ng and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernism, religion, and queer bodies come together in this study of Djuna Barnes's writings and art. Examining the role of Barnes's theological imagination in relation to a phenomenology of suffering, joy, and sexed embodiment, this book unfolds an intricate synthesis of theology, psychoanalysis, and narrative theory to interrogate how queerness informs her art. Providing an original contribution to religious and literary theory, Ng develops a neo-ontological account of melancholy in relation to the myth of the Fall and provides a novel framework for understanding comedy and tragedy in relation to the question of theodicy. Presented in light of a large body of new archival evidence, Barnes's works are also examined for the first time in relation to a wide range of intertextual and intermedial encounters, including the medieval mysticism of Marguerite Porete, Stravinsky's music, 16th- and 18th-century engravings by Albrecht Dürer and Joseph Ottinger, and French and Russian literature from Baudelaire and Lautréamont to Proust and Dostoevsky.

The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists

Author : Timothy Parrish
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107013135
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists written by Timothy Parrish and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics on the social and cultural history of the novel in America. It explores the work of the most influential American novelists of the past 200 years, including Melville, Twain, James, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, Ellison, Pynchon, and Morrison.

Joyce’s Non-Fiction Writings

Author : Katherine Ebury
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319722425
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Joyce’s Non-Fiction Writings written by Katherine Ebury and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a fundamental shift in the way we approach, discuss, and evaluate Joyce’s non-fictional writings. Rather than simply proposing or applying new methodologies, it historicises and reconceives the critical assumptions that have shaped scholarly approaches to these works for over half a century, showing that non-fiction as a categorical distinction, no matter how sensible it appears, crumbles under closer inspection. Bringing into conversation a group of key Joyce scholars, this volume acts not only as a vital reimagining of our critical relationship to Joyce’s non-fiction, but as a contribution to similar debates being carried out across the broad range of modernist studies.

The Twentieth-Century American Fiction Handbook

Author : Christopher MacGowan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405160233
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Twentieth-Century American Fiction Handbook written by Christopher MacGowan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION Accessibly structured with entries on important historical contexts, central issues, key texts and the major writers, this Handbook provides an engaging overview of twentieth-century American ﬁction. Featured writers range from Henry James and Theodore Dreiser to contemporary figures such as Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Pynchon, and Sherman Alexie, and analyses of key works include The Great Gatsby, Lolita, The Color Purple, and The Joy Luck Club, among others. Relevant contexts for these works, such as the impact of Hollywood, the expatriate scene in the 1920s, and the political unrest of the 1960s are also explored, and their importance discussed. This is a stimulating overview of twentieth-century American fiction, offering invaluable guidance and essential information for students and general readers.

Nomadic Modernisms and Diasporic Journeys of Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles

Author : Pavlina Radia
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004314431
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Nomadic Modernisms and Diasporic Journeys of Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles written by Pavlina Radia and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the artistic trajectories of Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles, examining their literary representations of the nomadic ethic pervading the twentieth-century expatriate movements in and out of America. The book argues that these authors contribute to the nomadic aesthetic of American modernism: its pastoral ideographies, (post)colonial ecologies, as well as regional and transcultural varieties. Mapping the pastoral moment in different temporalities and spaces (Barnes representing the 1920s expatriation in Europe while Bowles comments on the 1940s exodus to Mexico and North Africa), this book suggests that Barnes and Bowles counter the critical trend associating American modernity primarily with urban spaces, and instead locate the nomadic thrust of their times in the (post)colonial history of the American frontier.

Djuna Barnes and Affective Modernism

Author : Julie Taylor
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748664378
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Djuna Barnes and Affective Modernism written by Julie Taylor and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the dynamic connections between the affective body and Djuna Barnes's textual corpus. The five chapters of this book reconsider modernist intertextuality, affect, and subjectivity to produce a series of lively and compelling readings of the major

Djuna Barnes's Nightwood

Author : Bonnie Roos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472533291
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Djuna Barnes's Nightwood written by Bonnie Roos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging over depression-era politics, the failures of the League of Nations, popular journalism and the Modernist culture exemplified by such writers as James Joyce and T.S. Eliot, this is a comprehensive exploration of the historical contexts of Djuna Barnes's masterpiece, Nightwood. In Djuna Barnes's Nightwood: 'The World' and the Politics of Peace, Bonnie Roos reads Barnes's novel against the backdrop of Herbert Bayard Swope's popular New York newspaper The World to demonstrate the ways in which the novel wrestles with such contemporaneous issues as the Great Depression and its political fallout, the failures of the League of Nations and the collapse of peace between the two World Wars. Roos argues that Nightwood allegorizes the role of liberal newspapers - epitomised by the sensationalism of The World - in driving a US policy that hastened the arrival of war.

The Outside Thing

Author : Hannah Roche
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231547692
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Outside Thing written by Hannah Roche and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a lecture delivered before the University of Oxford’s Anglo-French Society in 1936, Gertrude Stein described romance as “the outside thing, that . . . is always a thing to be felt inside.” Hannah Roche takes Stein’s definition as a principle for the reinterpretation of three major modernist lesbian writers, showing how literary and affective romance played a crucial yet overlooked role in the works of Stein, Radclyffe Hall, and Djuna Barnes. The Outside Thing offers original readings of both canonical and peripheral texts, including Stein’s first novel Q.E.D. (Things As They Are), Hall’s Adam’s Breed and The Well of Loneliness, and Barnes’s early writing alongside Nightwood. Is there an inside space for lesbian writing, or must it always seek refuge elsewhere? Crossing established lines of demarcation between the in and the out, the real and the romantic, and the Victorian and the modernist, The Outside Thing presents romance as a heterosexual plot upon which lesbian writers willfully set up camp. These writers boldly adopted and adapted the romance genre, Roche argues, as a means of staking a queer claim on a heteronormative institution. Refusing to submit or surrender to the “straight” traditions of the romance plot, they turned the rules to their advantage. Drawing upon extensive archival research, The Outside Thing is a significant rethinking of the interconnections between queer writing, lesbian living, and literary modernism.

Improper Modernism

Author : Daniela Caselli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351928333
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Improper Modernism written by Daniela Caselli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her compelling reexamination of Djuna Barnes's work, Daniela Caselli raises timely questions about Barnes, biography and feminist criticism, identity and authority, and modernist canon formation. Through close readings of Barnes's manuscripts, correspondence, critically acclaimed and little-known texts, Caselli tackles one of the central unacknowledged issues in Barnes: intertextuality. She shows how throughout Barnes's corpus the repetition of texts, by other authors (from Blake to Middleton) and by Barnes herself, forces us to rethink the relationship between authority and gender and the reasons for her marginal place within modernism. All her texts, linked as they are by correspondences and permutations, wage a war against the common sense of the straight mind. Caselli begins by analyzing how literary criticism has shaped our perceptions of Barnes, showing how the various personae assigned to Barnes are challenged when the right questions are posed: Why is Barnes such a famous author when many of her texts remain unread, even by critics? Why has criticism reduced Barnes's work to biographical speculations? How can Barnes's hybrid, eccentric, and unconventional corpus be read as part of literary modernism when it often seems to sever itself from it? How can an oeuvre reject the labels of feminist and lesbian literature, whilst nevertheless holding at its centre the relationships between language, sexuality, and the real? How can Barnes's work help us to rethink the relation between simplicity and difficulty within literary modernism? Caselli concludes by arguing that Barnes's complex and bewildering work is committed to a high modernist notion of art as a supremely difficult undertaking whilst refusing to conform to standards of modernist acceptability.

Modernist Experiments in Genre, Media, and Transatlantic Print Culture

Author : Jennifer Julia Sorensen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317094549
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Modernist Experiments in Genre, Media, and Transatlantic Print Culture written by Jennifer Julia Sorensen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years from 1890 through 1935 witnessed an explosion of print, both in terms of the variety of venues for publication and in the vast circulation figures and the quantity of print forums. Arguing that the formal strategies of modernist texts can only be fully understood in the context of the material forms and circuits of print culture through which they were produced and distributed, Jennifer Sorensen shows how authors and publishers conceptualized the material text as an object, as a body, and as an ontological problem. She examines works by Henry James, Jean Toomer, Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield, and Virginia Woolf, showing that they understood acts of reading as materially mediated encounters. Sorensen draws on recent textual theory, media theory, archival materials, and paratexts such as advertisements, illustrations, book designs, drafts, diaries, dust jackets, notes, and frontispieces, to demonstrate how these writers radically redefined literary genres and refashioned the material forms through which their literary experiments reached the public. Placing the literary text at the center of inquiry while simultaneously expanding the boundaries of what counts as that, Sorensen shows that modernist generic and formal experimentation was deeply engaged with specific print histories that generated competitive media ecologies of competition and hybridization.

Rereading Orphanhood

Author : Warren Diane Warren
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474464394
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Rereading Orphanhood written by Warren Diane Warren and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines literary orphan figures and kinship structures in the nineteenth-century novelExamines a wide range of canonical and non-canonical authors from the UK, US, Canada, SwitzerlandProvides an important and unique contribution to fields of family and kinship studiesIncludes an international, contemporary, critically-informed collection of interesting approachesOffers an important intervention in the most cutting-edge work on children's literature and family and kinship studiesRereading Orphanhood: Texts, Inheritance, Kin explores the ways in which the figure of the literary orphan can be used to illuminate our understanding of the culture and mores of the long nineteenth century, especially those relating to family and kinship. The chapters in the book explore how orphan characters (both child and adult) contribute to discourses of gender, home, inheritance, illegitimacy, notions of the human and the development of the novel across a wide range of canonical and non-canonical texts.

Exploring Text, Media, and Memory

Author : Patrizia Lombardo
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8771845828
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Text, Media, and Memory written by Patrizia Lombardo and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Text, Media and Memory investigates the link between memory and media by asking a series of questions pertinent to our time: How do individual and collective memories blend? How do traumatic experiences from past events and catastrophic projections of the future reveal the human condition in the epoch of frenetic technological reproduction of works of art? How is the human body tied to narrations - and why? A group of international scholars tackle questions like these across art forms, media, and cultural history. In nineteen essays they argue that modern and contemporary literary texts and visual arts show how photography, film, tape recording, television, and internet are not just means of storing memory and information, but objects that we interact with every day - challenging static visions of places and the linear notions of past, present and future.

The Lydia Steptoe Stories

Author : Djuna Barnes
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 057135467X
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Lydia Steptoe Stories written by Djuna Barnes and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. 'I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.' In these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening - accompanied by guns, whips, and worldly innuendo. A fourteen-year-old girl plans to become 'a virago', until her mother intercepts her first tryst by dressing up as her male lover. A boy of the same age is lured into the forest by his father's mistress. A woman of forty falls in love and longs to kill herself, so unbearable is the return of the youth she thought she wanted. 'Alice', she tells herself, 'be a man.' Barnes makes gender and desire seem slippery and joyful - and makes the fictional Lydia Steptoe seem like a writer for our time.

The Grotesque Modernist Body

Author : David Cruickshank
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031543467
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Grotesque Modernist Body written by David Cruickshank and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Theoretical Approach to Modern American History and Literature

Author : W. Lawrence Hogue
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1785272616
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book A Theoretical Approach to Modern American History and Literature written by W. Lawrence Hogue and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconfigures the history of modern America, showing how multiple and, at times, vulnerable social, economic, literary, and political movements, levels, divisions, and conditions such as the emergent middle class, the labor movement, the Progressive Movement, the socialist and communist parties, the Women’s movements, the NAACP, the Garvey movement, Asian and Native American resistance movements, writers, artists, and intellectuals seized upon social, gender, economic, and racial inequalities and challenged a singularly defined modern America. This book re-represents the modern American novel, accenting the different critical literary voices that come out of the mainstream consumer society but also out of the various unequal social, economic, gender, and political movements and situations. In including racial, gender, sexual, colonial, class, and ethnic others—who reject the rigidity, the repression, the racial and ethnic stereotyping, the external and internal colonialism, the complication/rejection of the past/nature, and the violence of the institutionalized, conformist norm—in a discussion of the modern American novel, it effects a fundamental recasting of the modern Americanist paradigm, one that is de-centered, richer, more complex, and more diverse.

Sensational Subjects

Author : John Jervis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472535642
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Sensational Subjects written by John Jervis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Under what conditions does 'sensation' become 'sensational'? In the early nineteenth century murder was a staple of the sensationalizing popular press and gruesome descriptions were deployed to make a direct impact on the sensations of the reader. By the end of the century, public concern with the thrills, spills, and shocks of modern life was increasingly articulated in the language of sensation. Media sensationalism contributed to this process and magnified its impact, just as sensation was, in turn, taken up by literature, art and film. In the contemporary world the dramatization of these experiences in an era of media panics over terrorism and paedophilia has taken an overtly melodramatic form, in which battles of good and evil play out across the landscapes of our lives. Sensational Subjects develops an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to exploring these themes, their impact and their implications for understanding the modern world. A companion volume, Sympathetic Sentiments: Affect, Emotion and Spectacle in the Modern World is published simultaneously by Bloomsbury.