Djuna Barnes and Affective Modernism / / Julie Taylor.

Explores the dynamic connections between the affective body and Djuna Barnes's textual corpusJulie Taylor uses the writings of the American novelist, poet, dramatist, artist and journalist Djuna Barnes to form the basis of a series of disruptive questions about modernist aesthetics and the poli...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2012
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 6 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction: Broken Hearts and Bleeding Wounds – Traumatic Modernism?
  • Chapter 1 ‘The Excellent Arrangement of Catastrophe’: Witnessing and Performance in The Antiphon
  • Chapter 2 Djuna Barnes Beside Herself: Mixed Feelings, Sentimental Modernism and Ryder
  • Chapter 3 ‘The Infected Carrier of the Past’: Nightwood, Shame and Modernism
  • Chapter 4 ‘That Magic Reiteration’: Ladies Almanack and Happiness
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index