Nomadic modernisms and diasporic journeys of Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles : : "Two Very Serious Ladies" / / by Pavlina Radia.
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 mod...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Literary Modernism
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: “Mobility, the Quest for the Sublime”: Nomadic Modernisms, Aesthetic Travels, and Diasporic Journeys
- Introduction to Part 1
- Short Stories and Renegade “Night Woods”
- The Landless Race of Ryder and the Ryder Aesthetes: Mock Almanacs of Experimentation and Intermediality
- “The Pastures in Which the Night Feeds”: The Heart Politics and the Music of Holy(Night)Wood
- Métachorie as Decomposition Illustrated: The Dance of Aesthetic Synthesis in Barnes’s Journalism, Poetry, and One-Act Plays
- “There’s Nothing like Destruction for an Aim”: The Antiphon’s Theatre of Ideas or State Politics?
- Introduction to Part 2
- Tawdry Nomadographies and Transcultural Frontiers: Two Serious Ladies and the Politics of Nomadism
- Short Stories and the Vendetta of Nomadic Politics
- Theatre of Pastoral Cruelty
- Conclusion: “Two Very Serious Ladies” and Their Journeys
- Works Cited
- Index.