{"product_id":"shattered-objects-djuna-barness-modernism-refiguring-modernism-27-9780271082202","title":"Shattered Objects Djuna Barness Modernism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of essays on the work of Djuna Barnes, including her early journalism, poetry, prose, visual art, and drama. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eShattered Objects\u003c\/i\u003e is an embarrassment of riches: Barnes and affect studies; Barnes and film studies; Barnes and animal studies; Barnes and queer studies. I could go on and on with its generous contributions, but let it be said that, for once and for all, this collection proves her to be a supreme modernist amongst her towering peers. Across these super-sharp pieces she now shines brightest in that grand constellation of twentieth-century experimental art.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Scott Herring,author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With \u003ci\u003eShattered Objects\u003c\/i\u003e, we at last get a full look at [Barnes’s] broad range of artistic achievements.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Megan N. Liberty \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eShattered Objects\u003c\/i\u003e offers an invaluable revision of how we understand one of modernism’s most beguiling authors.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Peter Adkins \u003ci\u003eThe Modernist Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This handsomely-produced and carefully-assembled collection bespeaks a certain maturity in ‘Barnes studies,’ while also pulling off the trick of recognising that term’s problematic status, given the author’s mocking resistance to all that we associate with author studies: a consolidated academic community, a firm sense of literary periodicity, a relatively stable aesthetics stance, a coherent world-view.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Tim Armstrong \u003ci\u003eAffirmations of the Modern\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Elizabeth Pender and Cathryn Setz’s wide-ranging collection ultimately reveals the ‘difficult’ Djuna Barnes to be the talented and versatile Djuna Barnes--a writer of sheer modernist multiplicity--about whom there will always be more to say.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Jade French \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Pender and Cathryn Setz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Modernism in Print\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Djuna Barnes on the Page\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlex Goody\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Djuna Barnes’s Short Stories in A Night Among the Horses  (1929) and Spillway  (1962)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Pender\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Human and Beast\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Nightwood ’s Humans\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRachel Potter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Djuna Barnes’s Creatures in an Alphabet: From A for Anecdotage to Z for Zoomancy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBruce Gardiner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Djuna Barnes, Thelma Wood, and the Making of the Lesbian Modernist Grotesque \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoanne Winning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Barnesean Style\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 The Critique of Modernist Wit: Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrew Milne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 “Trees of Heaven”: Djuna Barnes’s Late Metaphysical Verse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCathryn Setz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 “If Some Strong Woman”: Djuna Barnes’s Great Capacity for All Things Uncertain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniela Caselli\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 “The Havoc of Nicety”: Djuna Barnes’s Ryder and the Catastrophe of Epochal Change\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTyrus Miller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 4: Modernist Afterlives\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Djuna Barnes: The Flower of Her Secret\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMelissa Jane Hardie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 Making Contact: Affect, Queer Historiography, and “Our Djuna”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulie Taylor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Nicholls\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Pender\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400802541911,"sku":"9780271082202","price":63.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271082202.jpg?v=1730471614","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shattered-objects-djuna-barness-modernism-refiguring-modernism-27-9780271082202","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}