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Djuna Barnes and affective modernism / by Julie Taylor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Julie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Barnes, Djuna--Criticism and interpretation.
- Barnes, Djuna.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 220 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 works of the period's most 'famous unknown'.
- Contents:
- Introduction : broken hearts and bleeding wounds-traumatic modernism?
- 'The excellent arrangement of catastrophe' : witnessing and performance in The Antiphon
- Djuna Barnes beside herself : mixed feelings, sentimental modernism and Ryder
- 'The infected carrier of the past' : Nightwood, shame and modernism
- 'That magic reiteration' : Ladies Almanack and happiness
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-4676-0
- OCLC:
- 795695189
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