Djuna Barnes and Affective Modernism:
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1. Verfasser: Taylor, Julie (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2012
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Beschreibung:Cover; Copyright; 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
Explores the dynamic connections between the affective body and Djuna Barnes' 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. How do we reconcile Djuna Barnes' biographical writing with her Modernist commitment to impersonality? How do we honour the complexities of traumatic experience without pathologising the subject? How might we differently imagine the relationship between Modernism and literary history? Sh
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:233 pages
ISBN:9780748646760
0748646760
9780748646753
0748646752

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