Djuna Barnes and Affective Modernism

ISBN-13: 9780748646753 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 232 str.

Julie Taylor

Opis

Explores the dynamic connections between the affective body and Djuna Barnes's textual corpus. Julie 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 politics of reading.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction, Broken Hearts and Bleeding Wounds: Traumatic Modernism?; 1. 'The excellent arrangement of catastrophe': Witnessing and Performance in The Antiphon; 2. Djuna Barnes Beside Herself: Mixed Feelings, Sentimental Modernism, and Ryder; 3. 'The infected carrier of the past': Nightwood, Shame, and Modernism; 4. 'That magic reiteration': Ladies Almanack and Happiness; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.