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Book SynopsisExplores the dynamic connections between the affective body and Djuna Barnes's textual corpus. The five chapters of this book 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'.
Trade ReviewA thorough and engaged analysis of the entirety of Barnes' oeuvre and the trajectory of her long writing career. -- Dr Joanne Winning, Birkbeck College, University of London Julie Taylor offers a sophisticated, revisionary interpretation of Djuna Barnes' major writings and, at the same time, a substantial intervention into the theory of modernism and modernist-oriented literary criticism more generally. -- Professor Tyrus Miller, University of California at Santa Cruz A thorough and engaged analysis of the entirety of Barnes' oeuvre and the trajectory of her long writing career. Julie Taylor offers a sophisticated, revisionary interpretation of Djuna Barnes' major writings and, at the same time, a substantial intervention into the theory of modernism and modernist-oriented literary criticism more generally.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; 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.
