Djuna Barnes and Affective Modernism:

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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Main Author: Taylor, Julie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
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Summary: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 politics of reading. How do we reconcile Djuna Barnes's 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? Should we take on faith the Modernist repudiation of emotion? Why do we find it so difficult to talk about the pleasures of reading?The five chapters 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'. Key featuresPresents a new theory of modernist intertextualityBased on original archival research conducted at Barnes's archives at the University of MarylandIncludes the first reappraisal of the textual history of The Antiphon for two decadesUnseats Roland Barthes's dominant ideas about textual pleasure and theory's continued over-valuation of the model of jouissance
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (232 Seiten) 6 B/W illustrations
ISBN:9780748646760
DOI:10.1515/9780748646760

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